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0 pointsrukenshia9y ago0 comments

It's not even layoffs. Just making use of "Altersteilzeit" (early part-time retirement) and then not filling the retired jobs.

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'zeit' must roughly translate into 'time' in German, based on context. Is that correct?

danke

Ja. See also the borrowed word Zeitgeist, literally time-ghost but more accurately the 'spirit of the age'.

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0 pointsrukenshia9y ago0 comments

It's not even layoffs. Just making use of "Altersteilzeit" (early part-time retirement) and then not filling the retired jobs.

'zeit' must roughly translate into 'time' in German, based on context. Is that correct?

danke

Ja. See also the borrowed word Zeitgeist, literally time-ghost but more accurately the 'spirit of the age'.

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