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Survey: entrepreneurs still satisfied despite the crisis

2020-10-31T15:51:12.987Z


The Germeringen companies have come through the Corona crisis reasonably well so far. This is the result of a survey that was presented to the city council via video switch.


The Germeringen companies have come through the Corona crisis reasonably well so far.

This is the result of a survey that was presented to the city council via video switch.

Germering

- The district's economic development agency carried out a large-scale survey of around 4,000 entrepreneurs in the summer of last year, in which Germering also participated.

The Marburg Society for Applied Municipal Research (Gefak) should research the attitude of companies to the location.

The results should actually have been presented in the spring.

Then came the corona lockdown.

Gefak took advantage of this and followed up with a second survey in June.

Gefak representative Josef Rother presented what came out of it and in summer 2019.

Due to the recent exacerbation of the pandemic, it was switched on via PC from Marburg and was shown on the big screen in the Orlando hall of the city hall.

Of the 630 Germeringen companies surveyed, 137 (22 percent) replied in the previous year, compared to 265 (27 percent) when asked in June.

Before Corona, the companies were very satisfied with the location.

Above all, the traffic situation, the mobile network and the school landscape are rated as positive.

The shortage of skilled workers, the small and most expensive commercial space and the housing market are rated rather negative.

According to Rother, the companies also see a need for action in the provision of broadband - although according to Mayor Andreas Haas there are actually no more black holes in Germering.

Rother explained this by stating that, on the one hand, companies always wanted more.

On the other hand, there are also companies that do not use what is available for cost reasons or out of ignorance.

In some cases, the city's location subsidy was able to quickly remedy this.

The demand from companies in June, i.e. after the first lockdown of the Corona crisis, still gave a rather positive picture.

According to Rother, 72 percent of the companies that responded complain about a decline in sales.

More than 70 percent also stated that they had come through the crisis without layoffs.

According to Rother, half achieved this with the help of short-time work.

According to Rother, numerous companies have applied for emergency aid.

90 percent were satisfied with the way things went.

Rother also sees the crisis as an opportunity for further expansion of digitization.

Many companies would have thought they wanted to reduce their home office after the pandemic - but from the researcher's point of view, everyone expected that the crisis would soon end.

Source: merkur

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