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Experienced the same thing in Austria: I'm from the most western part, which mostly has alemannic and rhaeto-romance influence and the work ethic is "german". Y
by mrleiter 8y ago
Experienced the same thing in Austria: I'm from the most western part, which mostly has alemannic and rhaeto-romance influence and the work ethic is "german". You have Sitzfleisch, I go to work/university at 7am and after maybe 5-10mins of relaxing, I get start working/studying. I take a break at midday and a short one in the afternoon and leave around 5.30/6pm
People at the very eastern end of Austria, like Vienna, are far less "German". Their work ethic is much more relaxed, and like user wirrbel pointed out, they stay late to work, simply because they start later and get less work done in the same amount of time.
- austrianguy 8y agoVery eastern end Austrian here: Working from 7:30am to 5pm. Cannot understand the German work ethic and the often seen German workaholics. You work to live, you do not live to work!
- Nux 8y agoI hear that a lot whenever I'm holidaying in Greece. I totally agree with it. :-)
- TurboHaskal 8y agoI’ve been working in Germany for a decade and I’ve unfortunately never witnessed this so called German work ethic. I do hear about it a lot specially when talking about my home country and ironically during coffee breaks.