Labor is currently in short supply in many sectors. Roland Mack, head of Europapark, must also find this out. The manager of the country’s most popular amusement park is currently struggling to fill the several hundred vacant positions. The number of applications is not the problem. The Europapark boss is much more bothered by the work ethic of the younger generation.
“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 says in an interview with the “Basler Zeitung”. The 72-year-old cannot understand that many applicants expressly want a work-life balance and a home office and reject weekend work. As managing director, he would also work for the company.
“If our busiest days at the park are on the weekends, I can’t have a nice vacation when my staff are working hard,” says Mack. Like his employees in Rust (Baden-Württemberg), he had to hold the fort. However, the young workers can no longer be lured with money. His amusement park pays “far more” than minimum wage. But that doesn’t convince the youngsters either.
In order to master the labor shortage that has already prevented the construction of another hotel, Mack would now also advertise positions abroad. “We are now looking – and fortunately are finding – good people from Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan,” he says. In addition, the amusement park could have already won some Ukrainians.
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