Is laziness at the heart of Germany’s economic slump?

Is laziness at the heart of Germany’s economic slump?

From euractiv.com

With low productivity growth in Germany dragging down the performance of Europe's largest economy, business leaders have been sounding the alarm over the relatively few weekly hours logged by workers and the climbing number of sick days. By reputation, Germans are said to be a hard-working people, but in terms of average working hours per week, they actually rank well below their European peers. With the country's sputtering economy stuck in two straight years of slight decline, both business leaders and conservative politicians are increasingly citing the attitude towards work as partly to blame for the economic ... (full story)

No, it is communism, people get what they voted for, crime, inflation, and one company goes bankrupt every 2 minutes. The big companies are leaving.

20 days sick no work
50 week 2 red day every week
4 weeks every year no work
that is 5 months off

GG germany

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50 week 2 red day every week

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Huh? What is this?

Everyone can see the chart, but only a few can actually read it.

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{quote} Huh? What is this?

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its like semi truck rules in usa .... there is limits lol

last 75 years was amazing for germany xd

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Yeah, I don't know what that is, either.

Everyone can see the chart, but only a few can actually read it.

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