In an interview, the head of Europa-Park in Rust was critical of the work attitudes of applicants for his amusement park and the associated hotels and is now increasingly relying on workers from Eastern European and Central Asian countries.
The term “work-life balance worries him,” said the head of Europa-Park, Roland Mack, in an interview with the “Basler Zeitung”. He would like his employees to be more devoted and passionate. Applicants, for example, who only work three days a day Wanting to work a week, asking about home office or wanting to have the weekends free are therefore not the very first choice for him.
“There are 25-year-olds who only want to work for three days – they still have their whole lives ahead of them, could become something here, take on responsibility, make a career,” he summarizes his criticism. Of course, he doesn’t spare himself either, because “when our busiest days in the park are the weekends, I can’t go on vacation when my employees are working hard.” He also now pays “far more” than the minimum wage, but still can’t find enough suitable applicants for the free ones Posts in the amusement park and in the hotels attached to it.
Due to requests for home offices and the like, staff are now being sought in other countries
He now has no choice but to recruit workers from other countries, says Mack, meaning, among other things, “good people from Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan.”
Germany’s largest amusement park is temporarily capping the daily number of visitors due to the current shortage of staff. “There are not enough staff and the guests notice that when restaurants or food stands are not open,” said a company spokeswoman for the “Badische Zeitung”. Currently, no more than 30,000 visitors are admitted daily. However, on peak days, more than 50,000 people typically visit the park.
The Europa-Park, which claims to have almost 5,000 employees, around 5.8 million visitors (as of 2019), over 100 attractions, six themed hotels and the associated water world, is not only a magnet for visitors, but also an important company for the regional economy in Baden- Wuerttemberg.
Sources: (both paid content), DPA
Source: Stern
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