world good point. me injury. with different languages we fight for different things that's fine but we all think up for freedom freedom of speech and freedom of press. giving freedom of voice global news that matters d. w. made for minds. what a great novelty it was to work from home for the 1st time to be able to plonk yourself on the sofa open up your laptop and just get down to business but it didn't take

long for the reality of the situation to sink in for many of us the coronavirus pandemic has changed our professional day today into something that's barely recognizable from before the world of work 2020 that's our topic today here on made welcome along so we all worry about our jobs in these uncertain times but the many refugees who've come to germany in recent years have had a different set of worries for a start they've often arrived empty handed and had to find work in a completely strange environment but for some things change very quickly 4 years 4 years ago our reporter mario hooter met 2 refugees from syria who found work and a parcel sorting center in magnifique we met with him again recently one of them still working at. it's another busy day at work for honest i'm not going to give you that

a 3rd of the workforce at this parcel sorting office in magdeburg are refugees like honest who is from syria he's now responsible for 14 people and says there are career opportunities for everyone here. and none it's just like if you show you have the potential you never want and you can really go far here and i will get off that back in 2016 on a starter not putting parcels under conveyor belt his 1st job in germany in damascus he'd been studying for an engineering degree before the civil war forced him to flee the country. all the young people with my oldest they must go to the military and we don't want to go and kill other people so that's why i decided to leave working alongside him back then was fellow syrian gaius diop 4 years on he's moved on from the parcel sorting center and now has better working hours. guy and no more night shifts. formerly the owner of

a phone shop in syria he's now set up his own business in germany a car repair workshop called dr or alto it offers amateur car mechanics the use of car lifts and tools and he has plans for expansion his office and of us i want to set up a 2nd shop offering express services which. is like a tire change in 10 minutes or an oil change in 10 minutes. ones are vital but there are obstacles in his way not least the bureaucracy he still only has a temporary residence permit which is bad for business. that's. it's really difficult i had a lot of ideas for my workshop and bought everything myself. except for 5000 euros from the job center so i asked all the banks for a loan but they said no. the bank. why because you don't have german citizenship or permanent residence permit.

that's the. guy a story all because determined to keep on investing and ideally get their german citizenship. now he's very settled in monte borg and says he no longer sees a future for himself in syria. in the sense i mean in germany for 6 years now. syria is a total disaster there's no water or electricity and it's really tough. but now my family and i have everything we need. it's better here. after leaving syria 6 years ago he was able to bring his family over to join him in germany his youngest daughter who was born here. she's now 4 years old. she and her brothers have grown up bilingual.

i only have a couple of friends he speak at that at school i mainly speak german. deutsch. see germany as their new home even if they've not always enjoyed a warm welcome they have encountered hostility but are reluctant to talk about it preferring to tell us about relations with their neighbors. that it would if they kept our distance at 1st but that's all changed for the better now. photos from the past. most of their old friends have left syria and now live all across europe but the dire obs have at least been able to stay together. some are still thinks about syria a lot. closer to that's what it looks like now and this is in damascus deciding to make the perilous journey to europe was not easy in front of

a mind you could say ok all hope is lost and i'll end up killing myself here so much of a christening some people do think that but if you do have a small bit of hope then you say i have to get out. which most want us to. harness his own journey took him across 8 countries he's not seen his parents or his younger brothers and sisters for years. in this big. diamond they did so you just can't help thinking about syria. but honest does find ways of getting his mind off the worry so much is hard work which will hopefully also see him continue his rise through the ranks at the moment to book sorting office. and good luck to him now office workers make up half of germany's workforce and it's hard to imagine a time without them but how long have offices existed here on earth invented them

and will they still be with us far into the future is no house has the answer. the office past present and future. offices have been around for a long time in ancient rome parchment scrolls along with the wooden or bronze tablets were kept in them during the middle ages scribes would copy out texts from the bible in offices in the 17th century lawyers civil servants and business people set up offices in cities such as amsterdam london and paris. offices were exclusively for work separate rooms that allowed people to work alone and undisturbed. open plan offices emerged in the 20th century u.s. architect frank lloyd wright designed a record setting office block in which 250 people worked in one room.

office buildings are intended to symbolize wealth and power but designed to maximize efficiency and productivity a production line for paper work. open plan offices are not well liked nowadays in germany they are often noisy and dark workers feel crowned and constantly observed by bosses and coworkers will the pandemic mean the end for the office half of german office workers have been working from home to reduce the risk of infection. this saves time normally spent commuting to work and can better combine work and family some 77 percent of people who've tried it say they enjoy working from home. they might miss being together with their colleagues but the advantages outweigh the disadvantages the office of the future might start to look a lot like home. absolutely nothing against my marvelous colleagues here

mate but working from home does have its advantages that all some things you can do that might be frowned upon and a normal workplace as our very own creek can testify. more good morning. morning so what's on the agenda today. very interesting. yes very interesting. ok today i'm going to play a very ingenious a very ingenious opening. to. my nights goes that.

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involved in any. one choice and sometimes their ideas dry as dust. is what mine we should make a show about food about ads but what do you think about it right. ya what are. you offering oh yes i agree. 100 months from where else apart from a chat do you get a chance to give god a break and do something nice for yourself. once and my scooter some. are very yes i know that if anyone asked you to show it on your camera saw

a skill that struck. are. very serious. last 10. yes that's a very interesting topic that remembers and we should i think about that definitely . very nice. well there is 2 fevers and when it gets to be too much go offline maybe you can tell them no internet no exception nothing you have to take care of your brakes yourself as well and home office working from home has plenty of advantages much becomes the longer you don't have to travel to work you don't need to wear suit. last year and if what a great chance got so much done lots of great new ideas new concepts super classic . i've certainly got a lot on the opposite. cooked delicious but just have to empty the washing machine

. gun that's exactly what we do take care we talk again tomorrow good bye everyone. point yet and now the camera really should be off. so watch that webcam for some of us this is all we have a wanted flexible workplaces and flexible working hours before the coronavirus working from home was the big exception but now at a single strike that's all changed business school in new york university of analyze the work of more than $3000000.00 people around the world before the pandemic and now they found that on average people working from home tend to work one hour longer per day meetings usually have more participants than they did before the crisis and there are also more of them but on the up side meetings are

on average shorter. the pandemic has accelerated digitalisation more than you. have put together suddenly digital processes that weren't even considered before become possible but digital work during the coronavirus crisis has exposed a real lack of skilled workers in the area now looking for professional if you can drive digitalisation. boot camp to find out. the global economy is in trouble supply chain spanning the planet have been disrupted the pandemic has highlighted the limits of the present economic system and the importance of digital technologies. isn't helpful in hamburg that describes itself as a school pool for digital talent. we are seeing a growing interest in training in digital professions because of the crisis.

for short courses it calls boot camps to train people in computer related fields. 3 month course in danger signs for university graduate costs a little under $9000.00 euros. training as a web developer costs just under 8000. digitalisation combined with coronavirus being forced to deal with these things no . flexibility and the willingness to go new ways are more important than ever that holds for training courses to remote learning is the order of the day. we see people who want to change their lives some have been working in their profession 15 or 20 years and want to change course. they spent 3 months with us doing intensive training so they can work in an entirely new field.

many more digital professionals didn't start with the pandemic but it has made it great. the problem. a small scale with. qualified personnel there are 124000. 150. so there clearly aren't enough qualified. digital publishing is one industry need of more people. are publishers magazines the print runs of its paper editions have been falling for years it's online presence has been growing fast it's online publications now account for a 3rd of its revenues. we have to work on the future viability of a company. and that involves finding qualified stuff we have an arrangement with.

whereby we can contact its recent graduates at an early stage so we can recruit good candidates for digital business. export driven manufacturing base is taking a battering because of the coronavirus crisis while digital developments are not. the digital. if we don't manage to involve. groups and make them more digitally savvy we're going to. digital technologies play a key role in just about every sector of the economy nowadays there's no way around the need to optimize people's digital skill sets. by the way work from home in the office or on the factory floor. or prefer to work less time friends and family the environment. from his work. a little less too so how

about a 4 day week christina back as i found the idea. monday tuesday wednesday thursday. friday the day before day week more for. more time for yourself friends family being lazy while keeping the same salary a dream come true right and by the way i'm saving the environment here. if you're always at work means fewer commuters and therefore missed traffic officers can stay shut for an extra day that reduces energy consumption and therefore greenhouse gas emissions. but honestly what would stop me from being excessively in my newfound free time.

or flying away for a short trip. except of course. can we really reduce our c o 2 footprint with more free time on our heads. you can see a positive correlation at least in europe and north america which when working days where emissions are higher and we can days and days off where emissions are lower. we need. employees to have more time tend to use public transport or right bikes rather than cars they also eat less processed food and in general have a more sustainable lifestyle that something companies can encourage. how can we create a systemic framework that will help us live more sustainably but might also include shorter working hours in order to reduce emissions from commuting and. would also

ensure that we have more time for behavior that we know is more sustainable at that point otherwise find difficult to integrate into our daily show deals obviously it was the answer i'm more free time doesn't necessarily mean a lower salary less working hours still means we're less productive on the contrary several studies have shown that employees are more productive when they work fewer hours when microsoft tested a 4 day week in japan productivity rose by 40 percent. efficiency in fact research suggests that reducing working time can increase productivity for example because people are more rested which helps them perform better. according to the german federal institute for occupational safety and health a shorter working week needs workers have reduced stress and are less likely to take sick leave working fewer hours improves people's concentration and makes them more productive. before doing what they're worth

a try don't you think. for the long distance truck drivers who are on the roads of europe or for day when. is a complete no go they can be on the road for weeks at a time their working hours are broken up by rest farias that are set in stone however the e.u. now wants to change the working conditions of millions of truckers it's an idea that's meeting with particularly strong resistance from eastern european drivers romania for example isn't part of the schengen zone and drivers have to go through time consuming border controls from their next sunday reports. stefan dam ian carries out a few final checks before sitting out in his 40 ton truck technical defects are something he cannot afford because in his line of work in particular time is money . we have a 20 kilometer trip to contest to pick up goods for

a customer in france. stefan's trek across europe begins at home in romania his family have come along to help load up his own luggage and food for the journey for the next few weeks his truck will be his home. even after 6 years in the job the farewells don't get any easier. stephon has completed hundreds of trips in that time but this one is special. this will be his 1st tour since the introduction of stricter regulations for truck drivers in the e.u. he and his colleagues are now required to return home every 3 or 4 weeks plus they have to spend their rest breaks in hotels instead of car parks as has been the case until now the aim is to ensure fair competition while improving working conditions especially for those from eastern europe but he says the new rules while well intentioned go too far. only

a limit of 8 weeks would be ok by me. 6 to 8 weeks. because i know there are some people working 4 to 5 months nonstop that would be too much for. the lender has anything to do with truck driving. the new regulations are a cause for concern in the capital book arrest with around 60000 drivers serving destinations across the e.u. the road haulage sector is a big contributor to the romanian economy the truckers union says many shipping companies could go by. just. of course of up to 15 percent who organize these return home all the drivers and also hired new drivers to field the gap when these drivers will not be available traveling. and back to their trucks in western europe and these costs they have to be covered by the clients unfortunately

of the clients we have offers from other transport operators across europe with lower increase of costs that means. transport operators to go out of the market. after 7 hours on the road stefan is approaching the border to hungary. the tailbacks for trucks are a problem that might well get worse under the new regulations the showing in zone within the e.u. has no internal border controls but romania is not a member and drivers from here have to wait hours if not days to cross in either direction. to stay competitive some romanian shipping firms have set up branches in western europe and their number is likely to rise 200000 people will disappear from remaining in the next 2 years because this is the number of people that are connected to me great to other countries in western europe who operate from their

transport industry but these persons will bring dave families there and increase the number of people that we get out of remain yet stefan can't really say what the future holds tonight at least he won't be making it across the border into hungary but the idea of being able to be on the road for a maximum of 4 weeks at a time leaves him feeling very uneasy each. shorter hours obviously the money i earn will be much less if not. so i'm really thinking about whether all the effort still makes sense. no money no family struggle to see the point of this anymore. stephens employer has already reacted by packing up and moving some of its operations to spain which could mean him having to do the same but for now it's

lights out because his journey will continue at daybreak. and now it's time for us to hit their hours chair next week will be back with another edition of night until then check out. the best.

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