Hide and seek

Thanks Tsao. Yes is for preventing Covid 19 - and due to economic losses of our company during the crisis, the employees working hours is reduced to 50%, what means 20hours per week instead of 40 hours per week. This would be quite nice, but also the salary is reduced to 50%, Means the company pays half of the salary and the german state pays additional 60% of your loss. Let say your net loss is around 500 Euro, than you get 300euros from the state, additional to the company salary. It's called "Kurzarbeit". Thousands of people here in Germany are meanwhile in "Kurzarbeit". This arrangement (that you get money from the state) is limited to12 month... But at least, nobody knows whether the company will survive in the end... But I think at the moment I'm in a better position than people in other countries, that don't have such social arrangements. And this social arrangements explains also, why Germany is one of the countries with the highest tax rates internationally... However, our Boss said, as long as we are in "Kurzarbeit" we can also make home-office. So I save additional the money for the gasoline, I usually need for the way to and from the office. I try to make the best of the situation and honestly, I enjoy the extra free time that I have at the moment... But I also know, I'm one of the luckier peoples at the moment. I know several people who already lost their work, because their companies are already bankrupt...