8 DEC - JANOPINIONPANDEMIC SPEED: HOW TO TRANSITION EXTREME EFFICIENCIES OF THE PANDEMIC INTO A POST PANDEMIC WORLD By Sebastian Fuchs, Managing Director Manheim and RMS Automotive Europe, Cox AutomotiveSeven o'clock Monday morning another pandemic working week starts and it's all about the uber efficient routines we have all built up in these times. Getting a session of sport in, a healthy home breakfast, maybe a drop off the kids but then back to that desk in the corner that we all had time to decorate in the last 24 month to make it the best we can. Nine o'clock and the madness starts, back-to-back meetings, decisions, working groups and progress at an unseen speed. Pandemic speed. Let's reflect here for a moment why this is and what effects it had on us. The fact that we did not have to get into the car and start the journey to the work place which is adding to the average person in the Eurozone one hour a day (ec.europa.eu/Eurostat ­ Source Dataset:Ifso_19plwk28). 30 minutes each way, and that's roughly 60% for the rest it is even more. If we take Germany as an example here and look at the 45 million registered workers and multiply this by 200 working days (acknowledged average is 220) we are at 9.000.000.000 hours of time saved. Divided into 8-hour days this would be 1.125.000.000 working days. Remember this is only Germany as an example and you may have surely factors weighing this down for Sebastian Fuchs
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