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Start-up in the home office: Every sixth self-employed person wants a regular job
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According to a study, self-employment appears to be unattractive for many workers in the corona crisis: 38 percent of employees who had plans for self-employment before the pandemic do not pursue them, as the insurance company HDI announced.
Accordingly, almost half of all employees expect that after the crisis there will be fewer self-employed people in Germany than before.
The information is based on this year's “Occupations Study” by HDI, for which the group had a representative survey of around 3,600 employees in Germany.
Around every sixth self-employed person stated, according to the HDI, that they would "prefer to switch to an employment relationship if I had the opportunity" when the opportunity arises.
Economic researcher: "Creating incentives for self-employment"
"If many people are now afraid of self-employment, it is a serious threat to the economic development of Germany," said the chairman of HDI life insurance, Patrick Dahmen.
Germany is particularly dependent on economic stimuli in the form of business start-ups after the Corona crisis.
"Politics and society must now create incentives to promote self-employment," said the President of the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), Marcel Fratzscher.
"Be it by removing bureaucratic hurdles, promoting or increasing the appreciation of entrepreneurship in Germany."
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