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At Airbus Getafe, Repsol and Gar&Cia, pages and elves are strolling headlong. Everything should be prepared on the agenda of the bosses, the Three Wise Men of the East, for whom a frenetic 24-hour workday awaits. Institutional occasions, visits to hospitals and residences and plenty of photograph shoots. Long hours of lively listening and a few teaching from their thrones. A fast breath to have a snack, and shortly to the float for the journey to start. The end result of the day comes with the distribution of presents, an expertise “that deserves to be experienced once in a lifetime,” based on the royal staff who get into the sneakers of their majesties on probably the most magical night time of the yr.

This is the case of two of the 8,000 workers of the plant that the aerospace producer Airbus has in Getafe. Both dedicate their Christmas holidays to creating the desires of 1000’s of youngsters come true. “And as adults, because even they, that night, see you so real that they ask you for their wishes, seeking hope in your eyes,” says King Melchior. And he is aware of what he is speaking about. He has been listening to the desires of the residents of his municipality from his throne for nearly eight three years. So many who logistics engineer Ángel Gómez Ruano begins to suspect that he carries some Eastern gene in his DNA. “In September I start growing a beard, which now looks all white,” he says. Gaspar (Raimundo Prieto Alonso, design technician at Airbus) and Baltasar (Armando Ucutolo Gomes, who works in a rebar workshop) be part of the royal entourage.

“We invested 1,000 euros in the parade from the 130,000 euros with which Airbus subsidizes the four business groups at its plants in Getafe, Seville, Cádiz and Albacete. They are organizations within the company, where we manage the leisure and culture of the workers,” says Gómez Ruano. Of the complete route: supply of presents to Apanid (affiliation of the bodily and mentally disabled), assembly with authorities or arrival by helicopter on the Cuatro Vientos airfield, the engineer highlights “when thousands of people, so excited, are waiting for us at the Juan sports center de la Cierva as if we were the real Three Wise Men.” “Sometimes I can’t hold back a few tears,” he admits.

A sentiment echoed by the president of the Gar&Cia logistics group, Jesús García, who will act as King Gaspar within the monumental parade in Seville. “It is a unique opportunity to look at life again with the eyes of a child and live a very real dream,” he appreciates. At their command, the Sevillian youngsters are assured of the well timed arrival of the presents: “We put our infrastructure and logistics at the service of the parade,” on a route that predicts “will be full of pacifiers, a true tradition here.” For the businessman, the job of king, past official commitments, “requires going hard to hospitals to transmit joy and all the love to those who are going through complicated situations.” García describes it as “the best job of my life”, the place he’ll apply “organization, seriousness, teamwork and a little bit of luck” in order that the whole lot goes as deliberate. Identical values ​​with which he leads his group made up of six corporations and which now arrives in Saudi Arabia.

As a businessman, he asks 2025, within the new enterprise stage that comes with his youngsters, for “unity, so that together we know how to support each other and rectify failures when they appear and learn from them.” Something through which his counterpart King Gaspar, Juan José Espinosa, a employee on the Repsol industrial plant in Tarragona, is an skilled. When royalty permits, he’s an teacher of the Human Factors Academy venture, applied within the 5 industrial facilities that the oil firm has. “We analyze the mechanisms that lead us to make mistakes to avoid the error and we learn with tools to mitigate its impact once it occurs,” he explains.

As a theorist of errors, he’s already an skilled, just like the Wizard King, in understanding the faults for which the little ones ask him for forgiveness. “Working as Gaspar is a unique experience and even more so in a small town, which allows you to live it in a very real way,” says Espinosa. It will achieve this in El Morell (3,800 inhabitants), the place on the finish of the parade “we will visit house to house to deliver the gifts, which the parents have previously given us.” He assures that it’s a “movie moment that generates an indelible memory in the little ones”, though he acknowledges that “you have to be ready because there are children who subject you to an exam with their questions and are going to catch you.”

While ready to get pleasure from all these Three Wise Men and their entourages, there are already corporations which have acquired them at their headquarters. This is the case of IBM, the place the little ones had been ready for them of their dad and mom’ places of work. “Delivering hope and gifts is a complex job that we can optimize with artificial intelligence applied to the January 5 route,” says worker María Heredia Fernández, like King Melchor.

In the places of work

A visit that additionally took them to Grenergy, a Spanish firm growing the Oasis de Atacama venture in Chile, one of many largest on the earth in storage and photo voltaic power. There they positioned sustainable presents for the youngsters of their 200 staff. And at KPMG, beneath the Real Wise Men initiative, greater than 500 professionals clad of their royal mantle have made it attainable for probably the most susceptible youngsters to have, at the least, their present on Epiphany.

Another initiative is the CaixaBank Dream Tree solidarity chain, through which workers, particular person shoppers, 360 social entities and 336 corporations take part. Thanks to her, 34,000 youngsters liable to exclusion can have the present they’ve requested for of their letters. The Ikea headquarters have additionally already acquired their majesties, and at their social gathering they’ve collected the letters from the little ones. Some shops have celebrated Relax Christmas, which invitations workers to put in writing a letter to request a present for the colleague who most deserves it. The most stunning letter is awarded 3,000 euros “to return to the essence of Christmas.”