a soaring mother in law styles, the terrain, and we have left his trees, meeting people doing victory. this week dw, the picture building your dream home. now picture that home coming out of a giant printer, sounds odd, but it makes sense. 3 d printer, the houses are faster, cheaper, and more climate friendly to build. what that looks like exactly as one of the stories we will be exploring, and here is what else will be asking on the 6th edition. why isn't indian

1000000000? they're demanding a 70 hour work week. is working from home. really better. and why aren't germans taking their foot off the gas pedal? welcome to made the w's business magazine. i must easy. now. here in germany, the construction sector is faltering, struggling under the weight of high interest rates, labor shortages, and to little financing. and that's especially problematic right now because we need new buildings more than ever to become climate neutral. but there is hope on the horizon in the german city of high to back. that's where your biggest a 3 d printing structure is being built layer by layer. instead of brick by brick. this machine does the work of several construction workers. he lays down the concrete in layers and can build 4 square meters of wall per hour. that's how your ups and largest 3 d printing building is being constructed and industrial building

without windows. site manager, she can easy who from nigeria, we studied in germany, is happy with the progress but when you're talking about so if you skip this like this where you have this type of fan or fed ex or where you have it with the next step to an order and you opt to create it space that type of homework for this. then we are more more done save time. suffice i done called us an idea that there's enough concrete in the sy low to last for 2 days. keep travels from the food into the nozzle that runs along the track. the process isn't just faster, it also needs less material to enter fuel workers. and it's cleaner than unconventional construction sites on we need to do this. just the for the, the nice thing here is just the people one pressing the up or press the printer. one press on that or press the missing machine on one press and that does works at

um, ms. service. it is good. what's the cost on that list? to send it through, which is basically what i do as construction site manager who is responsible for checking the concrete mixer. he also takes care of office work on a smartphone. it's a much more relaxed atmosphere than on other sites. at intervals, they attach anchors to support the double walls. his colleagues monitors the 3 d printer on the computer screen. but how does the free printer know what to print? so basically the process is that the, i can said designs to build this which i have, you know, we improve with that. yes, this is what is possible. it is what is not possible. then after that is designed, this us, this step 5 is that to say this step 5, which is what i can sense i line design or the building. then where, when slices with this lives i, what was suddenly a set price. we slice them,

then we slices, and then we get the g quote. then we send it to the printer and then we've got to print the p as a, a german company constructed the building with the b o, d 23 d printer made by the danish company, co boat. the structure, some and ceilings are being poured conventionally and are supported until the concrete drives. it takes 6 months to build the building, 54 meters long, 11 meters wide, and 9 meters high. the building doesn't require any windows because we're only house computer servers. the architect, young folk month, has designed the largest and highest 3 d printed building ever. it's made possible through the use of steel girders. a new development in 3 d printer construction this as a result of special attraction is an experiment with this construction method to

you and find out exactly what you can create within the guidelines of some very simple architecture requirements. that's not possible with any other technology. and that's what drove us feeder. the owner and developer is a real estate agent who wanted to build something new and innovative. on the landmark site. the price was high, so we needed to know that it would generate a profit. yeah, i'm here it is, cuz i'm so we invested a total of $2500000.00 euros here, including the land. and i can't tell you what it would have cost if we had built conventionally equipment because we switched to 3 d printing relatively quickly each time i just wanted to know, can i make it economically viable with 3 d printing figures this and i did id pull team one best option because the site manager also has to do some work by hand, especially the places where the printer stops and starts. he might have to make small corrections, but he doesn't ever want to go back to conventional construction. i really don't

think i would be moving back to the big convention article. so sideboards, i mean, nobody knows the future, but i didn't believe that the printer printed with go on grow higher. i'm done with this. uh, i think i would have been with the tray difference in building with 3 d printers is rapidly moving out of the experimental phase and into the commercial market. as for to get easy t and just 3 d printer have enough construction contracts for the next 2 years. which group doing you belong to? are you a master procrastinator, or do you follow a strict schedule and get your work done long before its due? deadlines can be extremely stressful and cost strong emotional responses, but they can also be important milestones and some say, the closer the deadline, the more efficient we are. so should we fits deadlines or double down on them.

too many projects deadlines to type extreme time pressure. nothing gets done. deadlines can be a curse or a blessing. deadlines are also indispensable. british historian 0 north code, parkinson formulated a law in 1955 work expands and proportion to the time available to complete. and in other words, the short of the deadline, the more efficient the work to gave the example of a pensioner who has no deadlines and wants to write. the letter to her niece takes her an hour to find the right card at another hour to find her glasses. she struggles to find the right words for 2 hours. before she leaves the house to

send the card, she thinks for another 20 minutes about whether to take an umbrella with her. overall, the old woman spends almost an entire working day for as others would need just one hour. for business is such a time, extension without a deadline would be a disaster. these days, especially work is becoming more and more concentrated. so could we simply shorten deadlines, further, according to parkinson's law, and therefore increase productivity? that's not a good idea, because if deadlines are not achievable, employee recognition, trust, and motivation will suffer and quality, but also suffer until everything crashes. that wasn't parking since idea deadlines should therefore be tight, but reasonable preferably broken down into small steps. then the work can be done efficiently, and deadlines are not harmful,

but helpful or another way to boost efficiency is to have more free time, like getting extra days off during the week. that's one of the benefits of a 4 day work week. that's an experiment that's currently underway in many countries in europe, including in germany, working smarter, not harder as the month dropped behind the idea. and we've come a long way to that destination. only 200 years ago during the industrial revolution, workers 1214 hours a day, 6 days a week. and even today, the number of hours in days we work on average is heavily dependent on the country where from, according to the international labor organization, citizens of the island nation of on want to spend only 25 hours a week working citizens of gone beyond the other had spent twice as many hours a week at work and the billionaire and india once to go even further. mariana mercy is the co founder of the indian software company and sources. and

he's a billionaire. she has suggested that young people in india should work 70 hours a week to further boost economic growth. but why? i didn't quite understand. so not i'm with these coming from. if it was or anything, it's the senior bosses perhaps who need to be the ones that you know, they should be working hard because they are the ones perhaps who have very likely to give you the actual generational value of performance. many people in india work under a very hard conditions. long working days are quite common. the average high uh, especially i ones the semi skate on skilled workers would range anywhere between $10.00 to $6.00 being offered they even in the i t sector or many well trained

programmers work high expectations lead to long working days. the contract is basically saying that you want to be available. so in that sense, it actually, while it's the notion of a specific what the game. so the work then actually spills over into the leisure game. and there is no way you can escape uh, you know, say that, look, you know, i'm no longer at the workplace, so i not have no, no obligations really didn't know you any service. this is not something that is expected off an employee. one working hours can have serious health consequences among those who work more than 55 hours a week, 745000 people worldwide die of a stroke or a heart attack each year. the figure is highest and south east asia with over 318000, followed by the western pacific with 208000. the eastern mediterranean region was 77000. in europe was $57000.00 deaths per year. america as

a whole was around 43000 and africa was just under 40000 they spend less time doing things that we know are good for their health. so exercising, spending time with friends and family sleeping, taking time off when they're sick, right? a lot of people feel pressure to keep working when they're else in most european countries, people work less than 40 hours a week. but how did this figure actually come about? the 8 hours is fairly arbitrary. it comes out of a work or movement to have 8 hours of work, 8 hours of rest in 8 hours to do what you want. so that 8 hours, which we've come to think of as being the, you know, the standard is really not something that was ever established as the right number of hours for people to work. today. there are many working hours models around the

world. germany is currently considering reducing its work week to 4 days. other countries are sticking to longer working hours, depending on the culture, economic situation and employee rates. at 52.6 hours, the united arab emirates has the longest average work week. in india, it's 5 hours less. in china, people work more than 46 hours per week. in the us, it's 36.4 hours. well, germany is one of the countries with the shortest work week. the 34.3 hours this has been hard one over the past century. and yet many germans still feel that the work life balance is not right. the. we need to be filed from the idea that if you would use working hours the, the worker we went in the employer, we lose. that's not how all things work. after all,

employers also benefit it has long been proven that less work does not necessarily come with the expense of productivity. on the contrary, a good work life balance makes happy employees and they often and she's more, in less time. what does your ideal work week look like? how much we work as one factor to consider where we work as another around the world working from home has become increasingly common in some countries more so than in others. india, for example, is a front runner. indian workers spend 2.6 days a week working from home in the united kingdom. it's 2 days in germany, 1.4, and then find out 1 point one and working from home is much less common in south korea at 0.5 days a week. but what are the pros and cons of working from home? what are the down science of working from home working from home is popular

worldwide, no commuting ease of child care, doing housework during your break. but is it a good work life balance and good for productivity? too much working from home can indeed have negative effect. the boundary between work and leisure is blurring, working before or after regular working hours reduces people's well being. this is exactly what soon happens when working from home writing a quick e mail after the children are put to bed. after all, you can pick them up from nursery during working hours of work life balance trends . if you managed to keep to your working hours, the flexibility can be more satisfying. and contrary to popular belief, people who work from home are more committed than office workers. still, the more often you work from home, the more stressful it is. although study participants reported better concentration

when working from home, they complained of headaches, listlessness nightmares, and sadness. most of the study results are still new and they sometimes differ from each other. but don't forget that a workplace is also a place of vital interest and a social community. one thing is clear, if you strike a healthy balance between working from home and the office, you can definitely benefit from both options. a breaking out of old habits pays off, and that's not just true for our work habits. germany, speed limits, or rather the lack there of is deeply invest in the countries driving culture. more than half of durham, nice highways. there is no speed limit at all, meaning drivers can go as fast as they want. but driving more slowly could save millions of tons of c, o 2 emissions every year. never the less germans refused to take their foot off the gas pedal no matter the benefits. why is that

the is this nissan of the german autobahn? maybe if you're visiting because for many locals, hurling down the highway at top speed is just another day of driving. germany could save millions of tons of few to a year if it implemented a speed limit. so why doesn't the self proclaimed cream power tickets put off the gas in germany, the debate around the speed limit is polarizing a slight majority of the population wants one, but the opposition is loud. it's sickness off. it doesn't make sense to drive 200 kilometers per hour just to have some fun or feel superior to other people. that's the thing we should keep it as it is. we are restricted everywhere on what i am. awesome, but apparently the gas prices still on high enough to meet people drive to the west bogo. why do we build cars with more than 50 horse power? if we can only drive a 100 kilometers per hour and assign them?

and spoiler alert, this discussion often doesn't for evolve around fact gets a kind of an now. so to say, in motion i did phase, this is katya dear. she wrote a book about mobility in germany, costs people one to stuck, to be free, to have that free will of drive really, really fast. but let's take a look at the facts 1st. germany has more than 13000 kilometers of ultra bon famously well maintained and toll free for cars. most countries in the world got speed limits to improve road safety or to cause or fuel get in germany. you can drive as fast as you want about 70 percent of highways. opponents of the speed limit argue that there are fewer road that's per kilometer on the autobahn than in some nation, such as france or italy. but experts like the german road safety council say it would become even safer with a limit in recent years that discussion has shifted to another aspect. the climate . the one thing also these agree on is that

a speed limit on these highways with lower emissions. the question is to what extent will according to the latest study, by jeremy's environment agencies, the country could save up to $6700000.00 tons of c o 2 per year. if it implemented a speed limit of a 120 kilometers per hour, that's about as much as low emission in countries like rolanda in eritrea pollute in the year. another study commissioned by the car friendly ftp party puts the savings much lower at $1100000.00 tons per year. so realistically speaking, how substantial really is a cut of one to 6000000 tons of c o. 2 for a top looter like germany. the opponents of a bunch of ways, speed lead me to argue that the emission reductions wouldn't be 3 via julia much really research of the transport and climate policy. they just choose the denominator that would make it appear ridiculous, ridiculously small. but i think if you, if you choose a, the, the, the right, the nominator, the reduction wouldn't be substantial. the denominator he's referring to is the gap

between how much the german transportation sector should be emitting, according to the federal climate protection act, and how much it actually is a meeting in 2022. the sector went over to to mission was target point $9000000.00 times a speed limit to reduce that difference significantly if they go with a german environment. agencies estimates if it go with the liberal party, it's estimates the limit could reduce a portion of the success and missions. it's such a low line hanging fluid in terms of no easy way to have other benefits in terms of safety and reducing road death. and he's already exists in, in pretty much any other country and awards. but for some germans, that's a big they see driving fast as an expression of their freedom and cars as a part of their culture. and some of the job and to see it as a kind of d n a. i think it's that it's sorry to say with, i don't know if that the nazi dictator promised to motorized germany in the 9th and 30th a venture that he said would create jobs. and dr. taking a lot,

jekyll developed, and he wanted to lay the groundwork for one of the earliest highway networks in the world. for a while, the nazis implemented no speed restrictions that is until resources started running low during world war 2. and altima and drivers had to stick to a limit of 80 kilometers per hour to consider of gas. after the war having autonomy became crucial to many germany. germany was only destroyed where there was no hope . the weather was paper well yeah, coming back from the front and the car was a kind of freedom side. owning a car was the aspiration of that turn more and more feasible. as the car industry started booming, producing cars became the answer to rebuilding the country's economy. and driving them fast became the answer to rebuilding its freedom. for decades, many germans fought tooth and nail for this liberty. anytime anyone missed with the right to drive fast, they were met with outrage. perhaps because in the country with tens of millions of

cars and christine roads, driving fast, much of the one of the easiest ways to find the place of freedom. this list of freedom has become a bit of a sewing point abroad. torres even come to germany to drive as fast as possible. but if other people also find driving fast so fun wives, germany, one of the only countries that still allows that. after all this time, the speed limit can hardly be sold as a relic of nazi germany. well, the tuning car industry that provided many germans with a taste of freedom back then a still around of course. and it's very influential. the line between politicians and the car lobby has long been blurry. so you'll see this kind of what in germany the card did to effect the step out of politics. and they've got to go to the industry up to the lobby organizations. as for the speed limits, we can't say that the car lobby has actively petition against it and government. but we know the conservative and the liberal party currently stand in the way of

this restriction. and so does most of the industry. we know the general widgets beat limits on our team, on shirts as a spokesperson for the vda, an interest group for germany's automotive industry. the situations adapted speech recognition. the video suggests digital boards could show a speed limit when bad weather or traffic conditions require it. according to the group or richard limit would have minimal effects on the climate or road safety. it's factual reference as a study that says the limit could cost german society more than a $1000000000.00 euros. the study calculated how much time germans would lose if they drove slower, and how much of an average wage they would miss out on as a result. but this 2023 paper published in the journal for ecological economics disputes, assertions, like these. it's cost benefit analysis of germany could save hundreds of millions every year because yes, there is a cost of a speed limit. the benefits, like paying less for fuel damages from accidents and even the future effects of

climate change outweigh these costs. reason that tends to implement a speed limit have been denied in parliament because one of the parties in power the car from the ftp block, the issue from being part of the coalition of bringing instead, some opponents like to point to alternatives to save emission is like going electric, many car producers are becoming more open to the shift. after all that you has banned the sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2035. in germany, it's very slowly incentivized by people to use electric vehicles. but they're still tens of millions of cars with combustion engines on german roads. and not everyone can afford to get rid of stairs or wants to. beyond that, the country has the potential to improve public transport and route areas and revamp a train system that currently is often late and unreliable. but the solutions take time. well, many environmental researchers stress instead of speed limit is one of the fastest mechanisms we have to lower emissions in the meantime. in my opinion, if the german government funds even bring the tubs to do that, then i,

i wonder what one it can do to to reduce parts permissions. i think we need to have like that uh sent to us simba its uh, better dreams as driving fast an owning account. for some people this would feel like an attack on their culture or their personal freedom. but it would put jeremy on par with most countries in the world. the breaking out of routines, habits, and all the ways of doing things, opens up space for new ideas that applies to all areas of life. whether it's how we build our homes, how we work, or how fast we drive. we hope this episode could give you some food for rethinking things for turning in. and so your next time the

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