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Why work at Schneider Electric?

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If you want to energise your career, working at Schneider Electric could be the move you need. We are leading the digital transformation of energy management and automation in homes, buildings, data centres, infrastructure and industries. We have some far-reaching and incredible plans and we need the right people to achieve them. We’re proud of our company, and the people that make it great. Our values reflect our commitment to and care for our employees and the planet. We believe there are many reasons to work at Schneider Electric but here are just a few that make us stand out from the crowd: We are recognised and awarded globally in areas of efficiency, sustainability, connectivity, reliability and safety 5% of everything we make is reinvested into research and development With offices in over 100 countries, there’s plenty of opportunity to work with different people across the world We have global and country-level policies to foster work-life balance LinkedIn names us, fo...

EFF: Today, Europe Lost The Internet. Now, We Fight Back.

Today, Europe Lost The Internet. Now, We Fight Back. Today, in a vote that split almost every major EU party, Members of the European Parliament adopted every terrible proposal in the new Copyright Directive and rejected every good one, setting the stage for mass, automated surveillance and arbitrary censorship of the internet: text messages like tweets and Facebook updates; photos; videos; audio; software code — any and all media that can be copyrighted. Three proposals passed the European Parliament, each of them catastrophic for free expression, privacy, and the arts: 1. Article 13: the Copyright Filters. All but the smallest platforms will have to defensively adopt copyright filters that examine everything you post and censor anything judged to be a copyright infringement . 2. Article 11: Linking to the news using more than one word from the article is prohibited unless you’re using a service that bought a license from the news site you want to link to. News sites can charg...