Business bankruptcies have climbed to an 11-year high, with small firms hardest hit by Germany's anemic growth. Economists warn of job losses but see tentative signs that the insolvency wave may be leveling off.
An entire country that has stagnated in innovation because they just want to be stable and let the rich trickle down their wealth has stagnated. I am shocked.
I applied for an English speaking job there - supposedly remote - and they asked me if I could move to Germany. “Remote” to them was a synonym for hybrid. After checking out more job ads and asking up front what was meant by “remote”, it became clear that most companies in Germany weren’t being honest or willingly clueless about remote work.
For some reason used to have this image of technological prowess, precision, and progressiveness. Those days are probably long gone.
Yep. Even when you’re German and you have a 100% remote job, you may not work from another country for more than x days or things become complicated for the company. We were told that very officially at my last job and at the same time we were given very long time buffers for occasions where we might be called into the office for whatever and the few colleagues affected by that got the hint and kept infos about extended visits to friends and families to themselves. Nobody looked at ips on the VPN gateway and everyone was happy.
Obviously that does not work that way when you employ a person from an entirely different country.
An entire country that has stagnated in innovation because they just want to be stable and let the rich trickle down their wealth has stagnated. I am shocked.
I applied for an English speaking job there - supposedly remote - and they asked me if I could move to Germany. “Remote” to them was a synonym for hybrid. After checking out more job ads and asking up front what was meant by “remote”, it became clear that most companies in Germany weren’t being honest or willingly clueless about remote work.
For some reason used to have this image of technological prowess, precision, and progressiveness. Those days are probably long gone.
It’s a tax issue. They can’t hire remote workers without German tax residency. Some companies try to work around it, but it isn’t easy.
Yep. Even when you’re German and you have a 100% remote job, you may not work from another country for more than x days or things become complicated for the company. We were told that very officially at my last job and at the same time we were given very long time buffers for occasions where we might be called into the office for whatever and the few colleagues affected by that got the hint and kept infos about extended visits to friends and families to themselves. Nobody looked at ips on the VPN gateway and everyone was happy.
Obviously that does not work that way when you employ a person from an entirely different country.
Do you have any information or sources for your claims or is it just “Germany bad”?
Which claim are you referring to?