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weekdays on d w. ah, the yvonne by does it float hike and we were both really successful at what we did . but we weren't happy and so, and that's a very, very dangerous combination. culminates your on vend with us for the i'm once you realize that if you're honest with yourself business, then the only logical thing is to say, okay, i'd like to try something else. i was poor beyond greater and yon novel quit their jobs in 2021 and bought a used s u v. by may. they were on the italian island of sicily working remotely for a german company. their s u. v. had become both home and office. shelton's one, stun guns colored attendant. tar. we comfortably start the day and then get ready for work. albert for at 930 we have our weekly call with the start out in germany,
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oceans and cor met him start open doors fund. even with the right equipment being a digital. no, matt has its pitfalls. cling to missouri, i'm office and it always sounds so easy. oh, we need to work as a laptop and a reliable internet connection that have been a but unfortunately there have been loads of places where we couldn't really connect with bowden movies or ended up like we are now. yeah, glad to happen. yesterday the wife i was good to smith, but there was a storm last night and i don't know what happened to it yet. gretta and yon used to work in management for a german car maker. the higher up the career ladder, the bigger their workload and professional success didn't translate into satisfaction. don't come out and albert cuba, barbara, at our old job, there were rigid time constraints. there wasn't much room for anything else or under the dingo. and so just thought that led to us deciding to say good bye to working for a big corporation was and to trying something completely different on p. unless
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guns noise greater and yon have changed their work and their lives. they followed through with what many people would like to do. there is more work in germany than ever before. job vacancies are record highs, but that doesn't immediately translate into job satisfaction. for many in germany, work just means too much stress for a never ending workload for low pay and little appreciation. my heading ties and you don't are much, you work a lot and you don't get much time off in return right side of life. and the worst is realizing you're being exploited because elizabeth so much providing physiotherapy strains. your body when i'm in the office for me, what you end up getting in return as compensation or time off isn't fair enough. time worker to satisfaction is growing. a study showed that in 202125 percent of people were open to the idea of a new job. in 2022,
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that number rose to 37 percent. companies who want to retain staff now need to offer more than just money. as good a mix on it's a mix of money, appreciation and opportunities for professional growth even for people in the simplest jobs, it's about money. sure. but it's also about recognition. appreciation and advancement was good on thought on a lot is changing in this world of new work. there's a demand for flexible working hours. many want to be able to work remotely, instead of being forced to labor in an office. and there's a push for flat rather than top down hierarchies. had a sheen van rita vista, it's becoming less about hierarchy and more about abilities. no, you're fond of. there's a new kind of collaboration that promises greater innovation and productivity to your new work is ultimately a different kind of working structure. oh, but what would new work look like in a more traditional workplace?
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trump is one of the world's biggest manufacturers of machine tools. pascall yana cove. it's brings a bag, full of dirty shirts with him to work. he drops the laundry off at the company's on site cleaning service before beginning his shift of his i him 3 shirts washed and pressed. must my how much i $150.00 per shirt. i know phone stay. okay. employees pay one year old, 50 for washing and ironing a big help for the 43 year old and his family on fo august. good pascal young cove. it's was an apprentice here. 26 years ago. school hubs the machine to dina. i them of the machine operator used to watch one machine yet i that's no longer necessary. notice it's these days. one operator looks after 2 or 3 hops. you and i have an overview of the whole factory floor,
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other new work in the factory punching, bending laser ring. trump is a global leader and sheet metal processing. the family owned german company employs around $15000.00 worldwide. since his apprenticeship pascal ayana cove, its has continued to learn, the company has had to offer a lot to retain skilled workers like him on all by sites of us will be i can be flexible with my working hours. for example, once a year we can change our hours to at least 15 hours a week or a maximum of 44 volha auto hoops as filthy being able to change his schedule depending on his needs, has been a huge help in the fall outside. during the pandemic, my daughter was homeschooling. she was always at home and some one else had to be
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there. she is only 12, so we didn't want to leave her alone all day. mission got toggle. i love family is important to him. he hates to think how the pandemic would have been without his employers' flexibility. box one feel aside and really makes things easier. i'll buy it. my wife works too well, not full time, but about 80 percent on the spot on songs. it was handy to be able to coordinate and have that flexibility, flexibility. a lot of our friends didn't have that and things were much harder for them. the happened on sunday vitals list look limit all of em. austin is the company's chief human resources officer for him. good conditions are one thing, but new work can be a loaded term. when he'll walk hood done when i hear it, it makes the hairs on the back of my neck. stand up, this new for me, new work is something being hyped by consultants who are looking to sell something . and buy companies of $1.00 to $2.00 are better than they might actually be easy. that's about a lesson, obviously feel i since what some call new work is nothing new from us and he's
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always felt that satisfied employees are the best employees for the company. and my job, i'd side call, i'm alana flex time might suddenly be a buzzword, but trump has had flexible schedules for 15 years. and obviously we have a gym on the roof. i can get my laundry done here. and other things that otherwise have to take care of differently once, unless albanese animals like shopping and cooking employees can even get food for their families in the plants cafeteria. i thought, i schnitzel with potato salad to go please. yeah. the take out food costs between 2 and 5 euros and can make life easier. a school if this isn't for my than getting my daughter's food for tonight because the school lunch today isn't so great. if it just saves time at a pharmacy enviva and it helps pascal focus on his job.
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and that's all that schema is. i enjoy the working atmosphere here. not sure we have team leaders, but you interact with them as an equal. the employees have a lot of say stuff in that 5. the top down authoritarian model is no more. everyone benefits from each other's expertise. team leaders give information about the current production status, but anyone on the team can raise issues. this equality is important to many job seekers. 85 percent of survey, respondents think work life balance in the ability to schedule their hours is important. flexible working hours were a factor to 79 percent and for 73 per cent. the starting salary was also keith, with perks like the onsite basketball court and free gym also play a role in keeping staff. employee representative renatta looks her calls it a competitive advantage in the battle for skilled workers home. and yeah,
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we're surrounded by companies like portia dine, learn bash. ah, it all. the more reason for us to lead as the most attractive employer gave us in as well as pe, flexible, working hours and fitness facilities. and trump also offers employees help in difficult times. when you finish hired, so find my card from you and the supporting employees in other ways is a part of promoting a family work balance thought in part of this new working world in general. understood. yeah. hopping short. if not, we advise people who have financial problems. some if we have a company doctor who has a great professional network and we get support when people have relatives who require care and get herdlica for thoughts melvin, listen. this isn't simply charity. it's a business strategy. and outside of the time we put into supporting the employee is time they can then spend performing well for the company. all vital fun albatross
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will bite homeschooling. and at the end of the day, it's a given take pascall and his work day with 2 hours of overtime, which he can claim back as leave when he needs it. got amazon, does it methuselah. sometimes i can take a longer vacation with the overtime hours or does it depends on my or i don't take the whole day off, but i work shorter hours like starting my weekend early on fridays, mostly. okay. and it's one of the after 26 years, he feels connected to his employer. that's certainly not the case. everywhere in germany. in a 2020 survey, only 17 percent of respondents said they were emotionally attached to their employer. 83 percent felt none at all. that came on you work in new work is like digitalization. everyone talks about it
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without having a clue what it really means to you. i thought that ali malo g as a 41 year old entrepreneur from vienna. he's tested out nearly every facet of the new work model. his start in the business world was far from smooth and the shorter the floor was terrible for me as well. it was just pressure. i was there because i had to be and then i had to learn things without anyone telling me why it ever had to know them. it was meaningless. the kid, after dropping out of high school, his future was bleak. but melody was determined to succeed. he worked later, completing high school and then going to college at night. his career took off july . i t manage an am sagel. i was i t manager in a really big u. s. corporation with a child at $27.00. i was the youngest person in the role in europe and also act great company, car, stock options, good salary there, shall i always wore a black suit and red tie. i thought i'd made it and then my father died suddenly.
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and the last thing we had done was argue flat. and the sudden loss of his father coupled with the daily stress of being an i t manager was overwhelming. i took an oven, i had a clear case of burnout. with that, you see, i suddenly recognized the futility of my job won't thought i was incredibly lonely swan. and i swore to myself that i booked somewhere where people didn't have to apologize for not being able to handle external pressures. when cronyn milady saw a therapist and began working as a teacher, he noticed that a lot of young people don't know what to do after school. he founded an internet platform focused on careers. it was so successful that he was appointed e u ambassador for youth. new work means completely rethinking the system, thus didn't. why? that is what we usually talk about with new work or just the symptoms, the things we see. but it starts with an attitude that says, we don't need to work the way we've been working up to now. and as of when it comes
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to innovation, for example, hooked i as a 40 year old, might learn more about digital innovation from a 16 year old and they would from me to him as yep on. yeah. he says, today's employers need to understand that they have to compete for employees, not the other way around. i think it is nice to them to it's not about having a cool foosball table in saying that your company is like a startup alex. we're talking about issues like a quality in the organization, not appreciating workers, lining work schedules with the realities of life and helping people develop, coaching them and uncertain times, handled by employers and supervisors, need opportunities for change. but we all do charter, he didn't mention, and endless picked said, i advise every one to develop a respect for the course of their lives. if weeks and months go by when we're unhappy and we look out the window every day wishing we were somewhere else. and if things don't improve, then we owe it to ourselves to admit that this might be the wrong place for us. then we should move on. the answer question, the suspect official,
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what's on done by the team. and that's exactly what greater and yon novel have done living and working as digital nomads. as they prepare to go for a drive, they get an email from their employer. like a one dominic sent me an email. it happened and yes to me to publish al chris bois moved to prison of him. they quickly get feedback on the presentation required on that sorts of cable. the size of a one are comments right away. i think their carbon would have for the pleasure lessons down here, and let's drive to this town about 15 minutes away and see if we can get a coffee. yeah. then we can sit down and take a quick look all stable times. that's like almost even quote unquote, professional good idea. great n yawn do what's known as trust based working hours around 15 hours a week. their employer is a management consultancy in germany. they decide went to work, but if they get assigned something, they start looking for a place with internet. oh, today their office is this cafe does the stuff of fashion. that's what we had on
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our phones to write. my son in. that's the link won't allow them. they're supposed to edit a presentation. the couples, employers are zora and dominique glutes based about 2000 kilometers away and landau in western germany. they run a consultancy that helps companies adapt to digital working methods. they have regular video calls with great and yawn. yeah. session been great. unless you have more questions, we can start, am i gonna do you have any special detours planned or will you head straight back against on direct to work? yeah, been done. we're going to mount aetna. it was on our wish list for sicily wish list her physically and i took my fingers crossed to get there safe and sound and have good weather and at night combed, maintaining a regular job while travelling for great n yawn. there's a constant switching between leisure and work. i'm contacting vision, fog light. it's comparable to the project work we did back at the large corporation
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. you went from meeting to meeting from topic to topic and came up. it's like that here, except you switch between your private and your business life mission kubat who owns i got half clicking on task, which the job is done. now they can get back to their original plan for the day climbing mount etna. i wish almost 4 pm 4 and a half years ago. great. and i got engaged on kilimanjaro could've been much when we thought, since we're in sicily, it'd be a shame to miss out on europe's highest active volcano. oh pasa and game this one. so never mind the weather. we're going up there. now the frogs, andromeda, all from the, from where nearly at mount aetna and it's really starting to rain. it's crazy that i think sort of how you think you're going to sicily to get sun and beaches and
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we're here in this down poor even though it's may, the weather refuses to follow the southern italian stereotype. the rain pours down at the cable car station at the foot of the mountain and when they arrive at the top, there's another surprise. a snide is knowing no in sicily crazy. there isn't much of a view to day, but the pair still has plenty of excitement on the horizon. now this man has kept, i think his ball, there's so much to look forward to croatia, albania, greece is latanaya as alice of linda roberts of countries where we'll get a bit of sunshine. that will be the son of a daughter. yeah. but the sun is shining on their employers in western germany. this is where zara and dominique loots run their startup also from their home. all meetings are held
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remotely. i did present my by and collaborating remotely with gretta and young works my team, even when we say we'd like something back by a certain time, they let us know right away, whether they can do it or not. and half of the order happens in the companies bounders also used to work as project managers. they to went looking for a new type of career. ah, dominic on is ham. dominique and i both have long corporate careers behind us. we just didn't feel comfortable in that environment anymore. i'd entitled decision making processes took a long time because those sorts of corporations are very political. can i get that? not only that, their old jobs required shifting locations and different working hours. that's no longer the case. is fine, but kind of fun, but about them but matching your personal with your professional life is important
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to us in that no, we're more than just consultants and business owners. we have personal lives, phone, is it a, i'm a father and father in law. but the advantages of working from home, like flexibility and the comfort of being in their own space. also come with risks as that to set him up. a horse is not always easy to separate leisure and work with that you can't let work become an obsession. the danger is that everything is just a shore distance away. so instead of heading to the county to rest a bit more, you could find yourself back at the desk type thing. that's a common experience for many people who work from home. natalie over to as a labor law expert, switching between home and work means extra flexibility. but there are still laws to consider that it doesn't happened in use of theme of you got all the remote work during the pandemic has led to an expectation of work, life blending. but you might work for an hour, then take a lunch break, then do another hour's work, and then an hour of child care. in terms of labor law,
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it's not easy. it's tied question. there are standards for working hours and breaks a forgotten, for example, the daily maximum working time of 8 hours with 11 hours of recitation woodside from a shawn in 20. 19, just under 13 percent of the workforce worked from home in 2021. that number was 25 per cent and more than half 56 percent would like a permanent entitlement to remote work as often as unconsciously. and even if there were a legal right to remote work, it wouldn't extend to every job i can can. there are jobs that can't be done at home, like nurse sales person or hair dresser, and a fleet of coff name home office were shifting when if i quit going to have to accept that there are differences in people's ability to work remotely and hopeless cut will be saw by oh, bakeries are among the businesses offering little chance of remote work. they need workers in the kitchen and selling to customers. but even so at this family run
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bakery in the christ, gao region of southwest germany, changes in the air. to keep as great grandfather's business alive, owner steph and les, on hot at to make big changes. so by the neighbor. so folks, let's start the power briefing thing. yeah. escape pod. if you important things to know, raphael, you're the boss of the day to day. it's i was, was it looking leicha as a mom? we have enough dough for now, but we'll have to get busy soon. is mother mixed. ah, master baker. laugh i expect is in charge to day instead of a manager delegating tasks. things are organized during the team meeting. everyone has their role as it is. so we got another order women to have him from for 25 party roles for saturday. get this, can you guys handle that? um, it's a substantial no more orders then. that's on stan him. yes, otherwise we'll struggle the box little bit him up loud. this is how new work functions and a craft business like the bakery. the power briefing clarifies what needs to be
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made and when every one's on equal footing that makes coffee or spec appreciate his workplace. it doesn't matter whether you're an apprentice or master baker. we try to keep everything on the same level. every one is addressed equally slight amazon gospel design. the bakeries recent success is a small miracle. stephan lay on hot took it over from his parents in 2009, and then he almost went out of business. now and i mean again was he was pretty much my own fault for not having a plan back then about how to take things forward with you guys that he gave her old recipes and traditional banking methods left him in the red. that was the 1st problem is i saw the men anxious. we looked at what we offered. analyzed all the products and asked, are they worth making what it is we have?
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we done the math, right. and yet the answer was no. stephan lay on hot then took advanced training in french baking. today he offers seesaw for katya and french specialties . these new products bring in more customers and more sales than standard bread products level and spark long net boise had led to getting noticed in the industry . now people were saying, look, he's trained in french baking, he's become a bred somalia. he's remodeling his bakery. you can watch him work. i was word of mouth one that was really great on this slide. really told leo, not once an even bigger profile. that's why he regularly organize his photo shoots for instagram. mox hats off does social media for the bakery. he's been looking after it's channel for 2 years. not to mention us that is 6 bottom of so social media helps many more people see what's happening here. it's like the fact that
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things are handmade, but it's a craft bakery backlash on that just leads to much more appreciation. not a big problem for craft industries is that unfortunately they're under appreciated . it's so light of getting back in the black helped lay on hot solve the 2nd problem, poor pe, he had previously only been able to pay between $9.11 euros per hour. nessie my chill lights were well beyond that. now assign sales gal today we start in sales at 12 or 1250 tick in the bakery. it's 1350 or 14, depending on qualifications. linda by lucy, got. so that leaves the 3rd problem. staff shortages are due to unfavourable working hours for bakers. they own hot tackled that one together with his wife, stephanie. she revolutionized working hours on done. done. yes, leisha grain. i've put together the steps requested time tables. let's have a look, mrs. cot, mom. stephanie lay on hard introduced
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a 4 day work week. the business is closed on monday and tuesday afternoons. there are flexible, weekly hours and staff can ask to work ships that suit them. this makes employees happy, but it also complicates planning. as homes, it looks like a few as blocked off the weekend and then 4 people are on vacation from sunday and 3 before that or it's going to be really tight that i does this quiz dish. now with unfortunately, the system doesn't always work. hello miss long. this is skip ne, i know you never get 100 percent satisfaction because i didn't with all the back and forth and the balancing we tried to do, we can't meet every one's wishes. i live in the afternoon or what's perfect for one person. might mean that another person has a shift when they'd rather not have one se. so go to my lawyer when i'm with my mind to my vaguely to and for sometimes you just have to make a decision which can make you unpopular. that's life when you're the bus after
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school was i shave, but the effort is worth it all. good. i core logic has worked as a baker for 26 years. getting up around 3 am almost every day. at de leon hock bakery. he can start later. oh, that isn't good. the thought i'd have met is a big advantage. i have more free time because i can stay awake longer in the evenings. it means a lot when you've been having to go to bed at 8 or 7 every night ever since i've been working here. i've been blossoming in my line of work. it's really a kind of rebirth night. we're closing in my little flexible, working hours, social media less hierarchy. there's a lot that's new in this traditional business and lay on hot thinks there are more changes to come. as a new new work is still a process here. no one knows where it'll take us next to. i'm always having to test the limits. you never know. yeah,
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i sledge. find your work with some far new work as a big promise that has materialized for many workers name on the home to help me younger companies. olive as though he represents the german trade union confederation here at hamburg, museum of work. he's looking back at the hard struggle for shorter working hours and better working conditions, running rotary, print presses like these, for example, was tough and dirty. printers used to say that working for a newspaper which shorten your life as an actress, randi i what's been done, march, sure, working conditions were physically harder back then in terms of dirt, dust, and so on from that's why occupational health and safety laws came in in my management and labor came up with regulations, so you could, but i wouldn't say it's less stressful to day is hardest. press law lives in the mid 19th century, working up to 80 hours a week was considered normal at the turn of the century. the 68 week was introduced,
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but a 10 hour day. in 1918. the 8 hour day became the norm up. workers live to the rhythm of their shifts. precise records were kept of when and how long they worked. this is not true, the dish number was the punch clock from the factory with the office. that's history, fiesta. but the modern version of that time clock just looks different. temper with the clocks no longer needed, but really it hasn't changed and it just looks different. oh, good, and what's on the, how's it to day working hours are shorter and workplaces are safer that many workers still aren't doing well. the cup, i the humblest on how many that's physical stress hasn't decreased in the last 20 years. it's consistently high depending on the industry, height and bust. that's what's really worrying is the addition of mental illness caused by work. that's because the pressure intention is so high in these jobs and whether it's office work or nursing is order and a figure. the stress pushes many to their limits, and even beyond,
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in 2020, 35 percent of surveyed workers experienced burn out. in 2021, the figure was even higher. 38 percent. something has to change. new work could be the blueprint for more productivity and satisfaction that grew and gone through the thing it had thought as, as nickelodeon lornel, there are other factors besides pe, like development opportunities and stress factors. it's about how to navigate those things in a way that leads to work or satisfaction among remote work is a cornerstone of the new work model. but it still needs to be regulated by visiting their heart ashanda 3 o. we already know that during the pandemic, there were nearly 900000000 hours of unpaid overtime, high drones and fear a lot of that was people working from home. you can arrange a work how you want to hearken, but that kind of complete flexibility. nation isn't healthy on his own. on their own arrangements for flexible working hours aren't enough. as we're open to,
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we need new work men at the end of the day. it's about prosperity productivity and innovation shouldn't be for that. we need mines that are fresh, rested in tuned in her. we still have a long ways to go on to him. and if it's greater and yon novel are now back from sicily, and they brought the rain with them there at greatest parents house near the dutch border and are preparing their mobile office for the next big adventure next up, southeastern europe. there that's a tongue as that a water tank is just one upgrade we've done here in germany. he and arch linquist will have an additional $25.00 leaders of water to use on board. and the viet uncall foster. i'm on bottom the more than 3 months living and working on the road, taught them what they missed from home, all over the 50 slot. this is great. the water's already warm and there's good
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pressure toy. this is going to be good because as a woman with long hair washing it while you're on the road isn't always easy. my gun fly in fuck smooth day to day life is essential if they're going to work from their specially adapted s u v. after all, their business consultants working 2 days a week, no matter where they are done via some place at diaz. it's my strokes and we've got sand ladders to put under the tires if they get stuck somewhere and we'll 1st find harms fittings on it. there's a roof box, we made ourselves with a solar panel on top. we are tom written and we can use that to charge the s u v battery. okay, and as long as it's sunny law, as long as on a shines, they're living space amounts to just under 8 square meters. everything they need to live and work is on board and precisely accounted for even down to the cutlery slide up to flex to 32 nights, just not stones. that's it. in his workshop. great. his father is making
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a final part for the vehicle. retiree has helped freight and yon convert the su v. his daughters decision to quit her secure job and work in a radically different way. caught him off guard with ya of anger with of hon and was a surprise. but she's living the kind of life we dreamed of at the same age on, which we just couldn't make a reality for professional or personal reasons. so both mission going not above article, and i thought it mottled, gone that bushed, greatest father was self employed. his weeks often involved long working hours and too little time with his family as of them and then bonaire get through that process. i'm a bit older now. if you, when you look back, you ask yourself is, did you do everything right? is muffled or could you have taken advantage of the opportunities that the children are now taking advantage of? and maybe they're doing it right and wrong question. clayton and yon also think
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they've made the right choice full time work responsibility, career. these things didn't make them happy. they're glad to be trying something new. without a full 9 or 9, the car is 90. 9 percent done. unclear will make some final handholds in the workshop over the next couple days for denise and target on. when those parts are on the vehicle we'll be ready to go. get tied up. i sent there by it's up thought with the world of work is also changing for hotel manager, unimagined koya as of a few weeks ago. she's been working for days a week instead of 5. and she still gets paid the same amount. yeah, i think it's really nice to start the free day as a couple i'd having that time off just makes for a better start to the day. and i have my final one best gunshot and talk on mary's extra day off means she can spend more quality time with her boyfriend. this phone
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has been as i'm changes, i'm self employed, roofer was young. normally i have to be out of the house by 730 about the when she has the day off, we can have a nice breakfast together. one fewer day at the hotel has other advantages for the 23 year old me his i in fact out of it so much better not having to travel to cologne that extra day supplies. does it cut down on travel time on it, which i find helps me put more energy into the days when i do work on top that. hi, dr. mia pause you. the unmarked supported his girlfriend's decision as to madonna that had had to when she told me she had the opportunity to work for days. i said you have to do it. she was actually a little skeptical at 1st. i like it, i do it to. if i could i'm having worked here at the 25 hours hotel in cologne. the company that runs the hotel recently introduced the 40 work week
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housekeeping on about a manager, the house keeping department to day. she's training a new colleague going out and reading kits, and he with the pillows, we can check that the corners are out now done that they called a decorative pillow in the middle, and then the little robot hope is not my husband. then check again that everything's clean and smooth. down again. my memory's been working at the hotel for 4 years. she doesn't just get an extra day off. she now has to work an extra hour the other days she works. night of ha, ha, ha, ha, ha ha, our shift times have changed since the 4 day week was introduced. one fits when we now work 9 hours with a 45 minute break. of course it's a bit harder because you're here longer laying on the longer hours or sometimes exhausting management sometimes just 8 hours is demanding and now it's 9. you just have to get used to it on good. the hotel group has around $700.00 employees in
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germany. tim mcclurg hold is the personnel coordinator in cologne. the new working model is his responsibility as an else i can improve that exist here fact after my the crucial point was the shortage of skilled workers from yes, authorship. hardly because of the pandemic. we noticed a real lack of trained personnel as a company, we knew we had to do something that's including when it came to working hours is okay them the 4 day week is already in other industries and other areas. that's why not in the hotel and restaurant business to portions long and, and on the horizon and vanish on our television. gus for me, staff now get 3 days off a week, even in the kitchen. felix fonseca is a junior chef, wouldn't the 26 year old has yet to find a drawback. as zak also looks, it's a very, very big luxury, especially in the restaurant industry. desist nips, and that's just haven't gotten harder in themselves. so from that point of view, it's all positive of, i'm very glad with the extra day off during the week,
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i'd recommend it to anyone who gets offered. it should seen them fin the this under both the comp. ah but it does mean that the hotel needs more staff than before. that's an extra cost canal is natalie, and wished us, and it's logical that we need more staff because there's $1.00 day missing, so to speak. on t m, the i'm at act and unfortunately, and 3 departments, we are get able to offer a 4 day week this year because we simply don't have enough people. i've had, i've has not and positive but the ford, a model is up and running in 5 of the hotels 8 departments anyway. department heads are sharing feedback. dvd's. flanagan's title scheduling is of course a bit more difficult. we have to take into account request for time off and of course the events and functions at the hotel book sitting missing with more
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challenging scheduling and higher staffing costs. the for day work week is a challenge for the company. and so i think at some point of them, of course, a model like this will create some initial costs and we knew from the start it would be something we'd have to invest anything yet in the system. under the old model animal, he boyer would be done for the day to day. she's using the extra hour to work on her departments schedules as on my map to san latham talk, you do notice that you're a bit tired in the afternoon. i mean, there's this 1 o'clock slump that where normally with a 5 day week you'd be finished and you think, isn't it time for another coffee or some fresh air on social? if you notice that you're here for longer than the 4th, i saw him here in berlin, the futilely a museum helps answer the question of how will live in the future. researcher daniel deadline is studying the future of work the as always
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because as of some, when it's the old working world was monotonous and male dominated as of now we are already in a new working world, which is more varied, more diversity in some ways. also more radical and above all more female foreign bi playoff. also more reasons that include demographics, we need more women in jobs and in management positions and a few. and this change needs to be accelerated. the good is, was running that ling sees, and especially big change in what today's workers consider important vinegar goods of vinegar, acadia, it's less about money and career has cause it's ultimately the big issue is time. it will do the models of working hours and flexibility with times. no, because i think we have to be even more radical and how we think from the point of view of employees as cause a team outside the big topic is having control over one's time doors that something german companies haven't yet prepared for. he believes that when and how much we
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work will need complete re thinking in the future. kinda doable. and then children born to they have a life expectancy of at least 85 to 90 years and see sean, why should they retire in their mid sixty's? mid 60, from one there seems an issue that's becoming more important is the redistribution of working time across our life times. that us wanted us on like having more time away from work between 20 and 30. then in return, working more between 50 and 70. she, this is where i see the next revolution and i think it'll come in the next 5 or 6 years of the 6 are great. and yon have already decided to work less models before their big trip. they do a final test drive to the netherlands. their idea of the future of work is being mobile, working where and when they want they have exchanged the security. they once had home with freedom. i and,
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and job. i had a job that was secure and well paid for a really great socially minded and generous employer. adults. yeah, i was thinking about cuba 1st. what i've gained by giving that up is to work 1st start up by it's a few and start up. um, it's a very different kind of work on it and i'm learning a lot about it is a noise form to i but i so that's one thing which does i know i'm done be to dislike then it also offers me a flexible form of work. one's on some button. and thirdly, of course there's the travel eyes exploring the world, one not just seeing it on vacation the way we used to with our old job i had and job, but every day i'm london. those are the 3 things i got when i traded in the old job . i clung tachi agnes gig i night and job. despite the excitement about what lies ahead, yon doesn't take this new way of life lightly. kind of like i said, well it's will,
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no one knows what the future holds to this and we're not immune to those feelings of uncertainty in ones. oh, in the end, we very consciously decided to do things this way. it was so intriguing and right now at least we can say it was the correct decision. it's been going chart on well, when we saw the results, we noticed that the satellite images to take surveillance sites automatically on. so we knew that we could develop reliable software from a new way to locate and identify legal gold mines by monitoring app, developed by senegalese geologist morrow. know eco
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