RE: Crypto17 Mar 2022 18:17
"I din't realise how lax the UK employment laws are until I had to deal with employees in Germany. Mind you, they have great productivity"
How are German employee's more productive than UK employee's, job for job? For example, would a German car plant employee be more productive than one working in a UK plant? I would say not. Productivity is a strange measurement that doesn't take account of the structural differencies between different countries economies. I believe the measurement is flawed, with UK employee's workload under reported. UK car manufacturing workers are probably amongst the most productive in Europe, and that's measurable because an output comparison is easily measured. I worked in Telecoms, originally, first in Field Engineering, and then in Network and Submarine cable operations. As a field engineer, I was busy while the jobs were coming in, if there were no faults, or installations, then I did unmeasured admin in the office; The unmeasured admin would have appeared as unproductive, but that's typical of service industries where it's sometimes quiet, and other times non stop. Toward the end of my career, working in Network and submarine cable Operations, the UK staff also run a network operation centre in addition, and priority, to local station work, controlling systems and engineers in other countries. Not only did we do the same work as the equivalent Engineers abroard, we also had to constantly man telephones, dealing with customers, and monitoring the systems in the other countries, for less pay if rumours were true. I take exception to reports of British Workers being unproductive, I consider it fake news.
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