When I recently returned from my birthday breakfast in Berlin, I received a warning message on my phone during my journey on the S7 train towards Potsdam. The phone lit up and displayed a fire warning, even though I was not near the reported incident. Somehow, though, it seemed that the rest of the train…
According to a study by a competence center for skilled labor (KOFA Kompetenzzentrum Fachkräftesicherung), the skills gap in 2023 decreased by nearly ten percent compared to the previous year. This means there were about 62,000 fewer open positions for which no suitably qualified unemployed people were available, totaling around 570,000 positions. Particularly pleasing is that…
I have to admit that buses and trains were not a passion I could trace back to my childhood interests. Born in the eastern part of a divided Germany where owning a car was a luxury, taking the train was always just a means to get from point A to point B. In theory, mobility…