In spring 2020 there were far more people working from home than in the current second wave.
This is shown by a current corona study.
How does politics react?
When the corona pandemic spread in Germany in spring 2020, politicians reacted with
strict exit and contact restrictions
.
It helped, the numbers went down and the Germans had a comparatively quiet summer.
In the winter of 2020/2021, the virus will now have a firm grip on the country again, and tougher restrictions have been in place again since November, which are also
continuously stricter
.
The simple reason: the numbers are not going down noticeably and the corona vaccination * still takes time.
Probably the only success is that you can keep the number of infections at a
roughly constant level
.
The aim, however, is to bring the infection process into a framework in which infection chains can be traced again and the
Situation in the hospitals
relaxed again.
Why doesn't it work with the current measures?
Research into the cause inevitably leads to the home office.
This is proven by several studies and surveys.
The simple crux of the matter: significantly more people worked from home in spring than during the current second wave.
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Corona study and survey: Home office no longer standard
According to the ZDF, a survey by the Hans Böckler Foundation shows that there are significantly fewer people working from home compared to spring 2020.
In April, for example, 27 percent of employees said they were working from home.
By November, that number had dropped to 14 percent
- a sharp decline that has a direct impact on infection
numbers
.
This in turn is confirmed by a study by the University of Mannheim in December: the study author Harald Fadinger, professor of economics and business economics, reports together with his co-authors that only
one percent more employees working from home reduce the infection rate by up to eight percent
.
Conclusion: more home office means less infection.
So far, politics has left it with
warnings and appeals
to the economy.
However, they do not seem to really get through: Except for the hospitality industry, the ZDF reports with reference to data from the Ifo Institute,
the number of short-time workers also fell by more than 20 percent
.
And new business is growing continuously at the same time, as the Federal Ministry of Economics reports.
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Politics have a duty: “Home office summit” with Markus Söder
Because of these frightening and
annoying numbers
, more and more voices are being heard calling for politics to work from home, or at least stricter rules for companies, according to ZDF.
Markus Söder, Prime Minister of Bavaria, now held a “home office summit”.
The preliminary result: Bavaria would like to
promote home office taxation
, but Söder rejects a legal regulation or specified quotas.
The
FFP2 mask requirement
in shops and in local public transport
will at least make the way to work safer.
(fh) * Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen central editorial network.
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Article source: zdf.de