I haven't lived in Austria in about a decade but I'm pretty sure that in Germany the longer you work somewhere the longer the Kündigungsfrist is. From a quick g

I haven't lived in Austria in about a decade but I'm pretty sure that in Germany the longer you work somewhere the longer the Kündigungsfrist is. From a quick googling I see it's the same in Austria, up to a maximum of 5 months: https://www.wko.at/service/arbeitsrecht-sozialrecht/Kuendigungsfristen.html https://www.wko.at/service/arbeitsrecht-sozialrecht/Kuendigu... In practice nobody is keeping people around after firing them, you send them home and pay the remaining salary ("Freistellung"). At least in developer jobs in many companies I've never seen anyone stay after being fired.