2023-09-14 09:10:00
Invited to participate in a conference on real estate organized by the Australian economic newspaper Financial Review, businessman Tim Gurner wanted to give his point of view on the behavior of employees. And we can easily say that his opinion is quite clear-cut.
One of Australia’s richest men, who became a real estate mogul selling luxury homes across the country, reveals his observation: workers are no longer as involved in their work as they used to be . “People decided they didn’t really want to work as much anymore because of Covid and that had a huge impact on productivity. The professions have definitely lost productivity.” In this same speech, Tim Gurner goes even further by asserting that employees “have been paid handsomely in recent years not to do too much. We need that to change.”
To counter this negative trend, the real estate developer evokes a thesis in which he explains that we must “jump unemployment by 40-50%.” The reason? “We need to remind people that they work for their employer , and not the other way around. It is this dynamic that must be changed. We must crush this arrogance, and this must be done by making the economy suffer.”
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The reactions follow one another
Unsurprisingly, the Australian’s statements quickly sparked a reaction. On the social network X, the video was viewed more than 24 million times in 48 hours, with its share of discontent in the comments. Starting with Australian Labor MP Jerome Laxale, who denounced comments “that one might associate with the ‘big bad’ of a cartoon, not the CEO of a company in 2023.”
Across the Atlantic too, it provokes a reaction. US Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said: “Let’s remember that top executives have increased their own salaries so much that the ratio of executive pay to worker pay is now at one of the highest levels ever. never recorded.”
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