Markus Söder encourages Germans to work harder. Accounts from the economics institute predict a significant impact.
This issue has been addressed for some time: Germans should work more what do they work on?
Reduce, no way. Apparently, the 4-day week has practically become a reality in Germany: “With a 4-day week and a balance between personal and professional life, we will not be able to maintain the prosperity of this country”, warned Chancellor Friedrich Merz.
In fact, Merz warned at the time (May last year) that, if they want a more competitive Germany: “We need to work more and, above all, more efficiently in this country”.
Now it’s broken CSU to follow the same path: we need to work more in Germany. And the Bavarian party’s economic council has already presented a report in Berlin on increasing working hours.
“An extra hour of work per week would bring us huge economic growth, and it’s actually not too much to ask“, commented the party leader, Markus Söder, on the channel.
The CSU president believes that the right course is to reduce taxes and discuss working hours and longer life expectancies.
At the same time, however, he argues that it is also necessary to create incentives to encourage more people to choose full time jobs.
In relation to reform, says that Germans should withdraw from the world of work at 63 years; an early retirement without “punishments”, especially for those who contributed to Social Security for more years.
However, the German Institute of Economics (IW) did the math: it predicts a profit of 116 billion euros per year (2.6% increase in GDP) with one extra hour of work per week for each worker.
In other words, highlights the IW believes that this change could have a significant impact on the German economy.
