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I think there are a lot of misunderstandings around the German work culture. First of all, we are hard working people, but not every one of us is hard working all the time. Second of all, our company structures are big, the bureaucracy is even bigger but that doesn’t mean there is no efficiency at all. There is efficiency but you have to look very closely to see it. A magnifying glas is advisable. The higher up your position is, the less you “work” in the sense of actually doing something productive. And with productive I mean working on the actual product that is generating the money. A lot of jobs in big cooperations have more of a theoretical character. You work in a project, you need to hit the deadlines, but at the end of the day, the whole company would also work without you. Sometimes there are people working on projects for years, just to find out that the project has been canceled. That being a part of work of course, but it’s always painful to see that they have canceled the project for obvious reasons they could have seen three years ago already.

What Germany needs is a new hands on work culture where people can actually stop running from one meeting to the other and get at least the chance to work on their tasks during their working hours. Just take me as an example. Theoretically I have a 35h work week. Out of those 35 hours I am in meetings for 28 hours in average a week. WTF!? When am I supposed to work? Exactly! This needs to change.

See you next time!