Recognizable from before the world of work 2020 thats our topic today here on made welcome along so we all worry about our jobs in these Uncertain Times but the many refugees whove come to germany in recent years have had a different set of worries for a start theyve 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 to refugees from syria who found work and a Parcel Sorting Center in. We met with them again recently one of them still working at. Its another busy day at work for imus im not. Going to get that a 3rd of the workforce at this parcel sorting office in magdeburg are refugees like honest who is from syria hes now responsible for 14 people and says there are Career Opportunities for everyone here. And i think its i just think that if you show you have the potential to get up or not and you can really go far here im about it all started back in 2016 on a starter not putting parcels under conveyor belts his 1st job in germany in damascus hed been studying for an engineering degree before the civil war forced him to flee the country. All the young people with my old school they must go to the military and we dont want to go and kill other people so thats why i decided to leave working alongside him back then was fellow syrian gaias diop 4 years on hes 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 hes 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 all of us i want to set up a 2nd child offering express services. Like a tire change in 10 minutes or an oil change in 10 minutes. But there are obstacles in his way not least the bureaucracy he still only has a temporary residence permit which is bad for business. Thats. Its 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. I havent why because you dont have german citizenship or permanent residence permit. Thats the. Guy a story all because determining to keep on investing and ideally get that german citizenship. Now hes very settled in monte borg and says he no longer sees a future for himself in syria. Its been the ones ive seen in germany for 6 years now. Syria is a total disaster theres no water electricity its really tough. But now my family and i have everything we need. But its better here. After leaving syria 6 years ago he was able to bring his family over to join him in germany his youngest daughter goes or was born here. Shes now 4 years old. She and her brothers have grown up bilingual. I only have a couple of friends he speak addict at school i mainly speak german. So each to die or see germany as their new home even if theyve 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 their distance at 1st but thats 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. Doesnt know thats what it looks like now and this is in damascus deciding to make the perilous journey to europe was not easy in front of that mind you could say ok all hope is lost and ill end up killing myself here im sure booker think 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 hes not seen his parents or his younger brothers and sisters for years. And this big. Guy mended so you just cant help thinking about syria. But honest does find ways of getting his mind off the worries such as 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 germanys workforce and its 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 and raise 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 theyre 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 whove 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 there are some things you can do that might be frowned upon in a normal workplace as our very own olaf krieger can testify. 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Months from elsewhere else apart from a chat do you get a chance to gossip break and do something nice for yourself. Once of my scooter some. Are very good so i know if anyone asked you to show on your camera. Some ways its broken. Are. Very serious. Last 10. Yes thats a very interesting topic that remembers and we should i think about that definitely. Very nice syria. Well there is 2 fevers and when it gets to be too much go offline with pleasure you can tell him no internet no exceptions nothing you have to take care of your brakes yourself a month or so and home Office Working from home has plenty of advantages much becomes the longer you dont have to travel to work you dont need to wear suit lets you and if i want a great church got so much done lots of great new ideas new concepts super classic. Ive certainly got a lot on the opposite. Coast i just have to empty the washing machine. Gun thats exactly what we do take care we talk again tomorrow good bye everyone. Point yes 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 thats all changed at Business School in New York University of analyze the work of more than 3000000 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 werent 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 as you can drive digitalisation. Boot camp to find out more. 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 technology. Fisher is an outfit in hamburg that describes itself as a school pool for Digital Talent but. We are seeing 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 months course in danger signs for University Graduates 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 the 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 did start with the pandemic but it has made it great. The problem on a small scale with. Personnel there are 124000. 150. So there clearly arent. Digital publishing is one industry in need of more people. Are publishers magazines the print runs of its paper editions have been falling for years its Online Presence has been growing fast its Online Publications now account for a 3rd of its revenues. We have to work on the future viability of a company all the time 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 going to speed. In the digital. If we dont manage to involve them include social groups and make them more digitally savvy were going to. Digital technologies play a key role in just about every sector of the economy nowadays theres no way around the need to optimize peoples digital skill sets. By the way work from home in the office or on the factory floor its true to say that many of us prefer to work less. Time for friends and family the environment. From his work. A little less too so how about a 4 day week. As i found the idea. Monday tuesday wednesday thursday. Friday. The 4 day week more for. More time for yourself Friends Family being lazy. The same salary. True right and by the way im saving the environment here. Means fewer commuters and therefore traffic officers can stay shop for an extra day that reduces Energy Consumption and therefore Greenhouse Gas emissions. But honestly what would stop me from excessively in my newfound free time. Or flying away for a short trip. Except of course. In the rural 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. Employees to have more time to use public transport all right bikes rather than cars they also eat less processed food and in general have a more sustainable lifestyle thats something companies can encourage. Also 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 otherwise find difficult to integrate into our daily show deals. More free time doesnt necessarily a lower salary less working hours still be 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. 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 the shorter working week needs to work peers have reduced stress and are less likely to take sick leave working fewer hours improves peoples concentration and makes them more productive. For what theyre worth a try dont you think. For the Long DistanceTruck Drivers who are on the roads of europe a 4 day week is a complete no go they can be on the road for weeks at a time their working hours are broken up by rest periods that are set in stone however the e. U. Now wants to change the working conditions of millions of truckers its an idea thats meeting with particularly strong resistance from Eastern European drivers romania for example isnt part of the shang and zone and drivers have to go through time consuming border controls from their marks under reports. Stefan dam ian carries out a few final checks before setting 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. Stefans 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 dont 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 arist 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 reduce their increase of course of up to 15 percent who do organize these. Are the drivers and also hired new drivers to field the gap when these drivers would not be available travelling. 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 1st from other transport 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 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 3 years because this is the number of people that are connected. To other countries in western europe who operate from their transport bases for industry but these persons will bring david families there and that will increase the number of people that will get out of remaining yet stephanie cant really say what the future holds tonight at least he wont 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. So im really thinking about whether all the effort still makes sense. If you know. 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 its lights out because his journey will continue at daybreak. And now its time for us to hit the writers next week will be back with another edition of made until then check out. The a change comes to the happy tongue. The meanest is a basic crimes of the end the country has long stood against the force of the clotheslines sation the most trickling in to its smartphones Business Ideas and very new trains with. Just minutes long. D. W. Up to date dont miss our highlights d. W. Program on line d. W. Dot com highlights. A duel with words from. Where i come from you dont want to weigh from a confrontation. When i was 5 years old my father took me to his friends and i was hooked on the spot. The sport that you learned so much early enters your soul. Fencing is a language and a good sword fight is a conversation. 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