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Who else is not surprised by an older and about-to-retire individual advocating for the younger generation to work more?

No thanks. He can work 7 days a week, I'd rather work 4 days and spend more time at home. Or doing things I enjoy with more free time.

You mean save the greedy billionaires?

Oh great a boomer manager talking about how workers have to work 6 days a week😂 If Germany has less workforce then it becomes employees market and companies will adjust/compete to get those who still can work. This guy should do a reality check

I follow a hospice nurse on Youtube. She says the thing she hears most from the dying, is the regret that they worked too much. Modern companies want a limited amount of employees, (simply because of the expenses associated with it) and to squeeze them to death. They simply do not care about the stresses of the bio-bot (you) they are paying for, they care about as much as they would if a machine they owned was maxing out, but still working and producing. Dont let yourself fall into this trap, simply to chase $$. Only a nationalistic fool would work more "for the country".

The answer is no. Imagine telling people to work more as a solution to economic hurdles and mistakes in governance. More hours will just lead to a worse demographic outlook, just look at Korea and Taiwan.

Well why talks days off, let's keep working 7 days a week, and call ourselves slaves... Wtf is Wrong with Europe now

Honestly this man just disgusts me. His ideology is literally anti human. Sacrifice your own life on the altar of the allmighty economy. Leave the rest of us out of it.

Is this a joke? We should be working 20 hour weeks by now. Unbelievably regressive thinking in this interview

Karl, just because you are a workaholic with no life doesn't mean we should become as well. I get it that you're afraid and you want to secure your retirement, but you should've thought about that while decimating the birth rates. Do you think more working hours will lead to more babies to join the workforce or less ?

4 hours a day has been proven to increase productivity, we don't need to work more we need to work less

35 hours never leads to burnout? On what planet does he live?

Greece introduced 6 work days because they were already illegally working 6 days and now its being legalised instead of the 5 day work week to be enforced. Soo yeah, Greece is going downhill as usual.

The question is: Are you living to work, or working to live?

This guy is outright delusional. Research has already shown that working more hours past a certain point does not give you more productivity - they are not linearly related. Even then, in the current economic climate of growing wealth inequality, why should people want to give up more of their lives simply to make companies and their stockholders richer?

How about improve efficiency and innovation? A.I was supposed to make life easier and have humans work less, not more.

The 40 hour work week was established nearly 100 years ago. Since then we have increased productivity severalfold. Yet the real gains from that are overwhelmingly enjoyed by the already wealthy, and now employees need to put even more time into work just so that this model can stay afloat...? This can't be the only way

It's fine when you are earning hundreds of thousands while sitting in your office like this guy. Easy to call for more work when you are top tier earner and a boss man.

let blue collar work 7 days week while white collars relax. yeah right of course

Work more of course, make more money for billionaires.