The vacuum cleaner is making a strange noise. It's barely picking up any dust. James Dyson stops in the middle of the dining room, turns it off, and bends down. He opens the lid, takes out the bag, replaces it, and tries again. Nothing: the dust has accumulated inside the bag's fabric and completely clogged it. Dyson mulls over the problem. It's the late seventies. Dyson lives in Bath, in southwest England, and is an industrial designer. For some years now, he's been working on developing all sorts of products, like the Ballbarrow, a wheelbarrow with a spherical wheel, designed to improve stability on construction sites and in gardens. He takes the vacuum cleaner to the workshop and completely disassembles it: he's looking for the source of the problem. If the suction disappears, it's because something, somewhere along its path, is blocking it.

The multinational customer service company CPM has planned to lay off between 600 and 700 workers at its call center from Barcelona, ​​​​close to 60% of the staff, according to what was announced this Friday The Newspaper and the ARA has been able to confirm. It is the centre located on Felipe II street in the Catalan capital, where until now around 1,100 people worked. The company has informed the staff of this decision, attributing it to productive and organisational reasons.