Why Germans Work Fewer Hours but Produce More: A Study in Culture

Re:Why Germans Work Fewer Hours but Produce More: A Study in... by chhantyal on Saturday November 15, 2014 @02:08PM (#8612354)

Oh, where do you live? You go to bank to print statement - seriously? I live in Berlin, and I never go to bank for anything banking - the popular Sparkasse netbanking works in all cases - online purchasing, rent payments, making transfers, printing statement(like you mentioned) etc.

And I do so many things on internet - getting internet connection, subscribing to electricity providers etc, and direct debit or online banking works here as well.

I have lived in Netherlands too, and I think NL is more efficient and has automated lot of things though.

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Re:Why Germans Work Fewer Hours but Produce More: A Study in... by kleiba on Saturday November 15, 2014 @02:47PM (#8612458)

If I don't print my bank statements for a while, the bank will print them for me and send them by mail (charging me for it, too). Apparently there is a legal requirement for them to do so, probably insurance-related (you must be able to note any unkosher activities within a certain time), so I'm surprised that it's different in Berlin. Could my bank be bs'ing me? Nahh... they're a bank... they wouldn't lie...

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Re:Why Germans Work Fewer Hours but Produce More: A Study in... by chhantyal on Saturday November 15, 2014 @03:38PM (#8612586)

I don't know about legal requirement, but in my case - there is option to receive e-statement in netbanking. I have activated it and I get e-statement every month which I can view after logging in. They don't charge anything for this service.

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