Germany as a business location trap: Better opportunities abroad!
A keynote speech about Germany as a business location, relocation, remote work, bureaucracy, over-regulation, taxes, skills shortage, bogus self-employment and emigration.
You pay for a Bugatti and get a Trabant.
Does Germany still have anything to offer its companies? At least when it comes to taxes and excessive bureaucracy, the Federal Republic fares extremely poorly in international comparisons. Dr. Stephan Meyer therefore raises the question of Germany's attractiveness as a business location. In his forward-looking presentation, the business psychologist and change agent clearly argues that foreign markets offer better opportunities for medium-sized companies and their employees.
A quarter of a million people say "Goodbye Germany!" every year and emigrate. Many of them are highly qualified professionals who start businesses abroad with their ideas, thus contributing to the skilled worker shortage in Germany. One of them is public speaker Dr. Stephan Meyer, who himself emigrated to Cyprus in 2021. There, he not only found significantly more sunny days but also more attractive working conditions and entrepreneurial freedom from bureaucracy. On the Mediterranean island, he doesn't have to worry about being classified as a bogus self-employed worker and can conveniently pay his taxes online. He primarily works remotely; as a renowned change agent, he advises companies on fundamentally transforming their processes and products.
But his experience also shows that many entrepreneurs still shy away from the most important change – relocating abroad. Dr. Stephan Meyer finds this incomprehensible. His presentation demonstrates why it is becoming less and less worthwhile for medium-sized companies to stubbornly cling to Germany as a business location. Using compelling examples, the engaging speaker illustrates how the burden of taxes and the wheels of bureaucracy stifle any innovative progress and why the shortage of skilled workers is a self-inflicted problem.
You pay for a Bugatti and get a Trabant.
Nowhere in the world do you get so little in return for such high taxes as in Germany. It's like ordering an expensive sports car and receiving a cheap, beat-up clunker. More attractive business locations await small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) outside of Germany. Anyone wanting to circumvent the unfavorable conditions in Germany should seriously consider relocating or outsourcing their business. Dr. Stephan Meyer's presentation provides inspiration for this, explaining, using various best practices, how at least individual business areas in administration, knowledge work, and creative tasks can be successfully relocated to other countries. Increasing digitalization allows many tasks to be performed remotely, thus retaining skilled workers who want to leave behind the monotonous office routine in Germany.
Dr. Stephan Meyer's presentation is aimed at all those who want to meet the challenges of skills shortages, bogus self-employment and overregulation with real changes - and are prepared to exchange their wanderlust for a new beginning abroad.
Lecture content
- How bureaucracy and overregulation stifle innovation
- Which tax regulations in other countries favor businesses?
- What to consider when emigrating or relocating a company location
- Why not all company departments or employees need to be in one place
- Why freelancers abroad are not affected by bogus self-employment
- How to address the skills shortage with remote work