Copy machines that jam, people drinking coffee, meeting rooms, there are a lot of things that
are pretty similar in offices in the U.S. and Germany, but I've also noticed some differences.
Hey everyone! I'm Dana and you're watching Wanted Adventure Living Abroad.
First things first, there are definitely some differences in vacation amounts, parental
leave, sick leave, but for those things there's this video over here in which I talked about
that as well as the over all work-life balance difference between the U.S. and Germany, so
I will leave a link to that in the little I up in the corner as well as a link down
in the description.
But okay, so what did I say at the beginning of the video that companies in both countries
usually have?
People drinking coffee, of course.
But it's often different coffee.
In the U.S. drip coffee is the standard.
Whereas in Germany many workplaces have pretty fancy-schmancy
coffee machines, making espressos, cappuccinos, latte macchiatos.
So yeah, the coffee culture in the offices is definitely different.
In the U.S. lots of people go out every day to buy coffee drinks to bring to the office,
often bringing in coffees for their coworkers too, whereas in Germany this rarely seems
to be done as the offices often have it covered in-house.
Speaking of drinks, how about something to eat?
In Germany there are often company cafeterias or cafeterias that several different companies
can go eat at, and from my experience, the food at these places is usually pretty good.
Of course it depends on the cafeteria or "Kantine" as it's called in Germany, but I've always
been pretty impressed, and the food is often subsidized by the company, so you may only
have to pay a couple euros for a full lunch meal.
In the U.S., sure a few special companies might offer access to a lunch cafeteria for
their employees, but as far as I know that is few and far between.
I certainly never worked anywhere in the U.S. that had a lunch cafeteria or subsidized lunches,
and I also never heard about any of my friends or my family having access to something like
that in the U.S.
Another difference is actually the kind of paper that people often use to take notes
on or put on the flip charts.
In the U.S. lined paper is standard.
Graph paper, the paper with the little squares, I've really only seen being used for engineering
or something else that uses a lot of math, but not just for note-taking in a meeting
in, say, an advertising company or something like that.
In Germany though, graph paper seems to be used everywhere, just to take notes on in
classes or in meetings here.
I was really shocked when I saw that.
Something else that surprised me in Germany, the holiday office party is done a little
differently here.
In both Germany and the U.S. companies do often have some kind of end of year party
that takes place in December, but while in the U.S. it's quite common to have the party
in the actual office, and you decorate the office for the party and you bring all the
food and the music and the lights into the office, in Germany it's quite common to
have the office party outside of the office, usually at a restaurant.
And while we're speaking of celebrations, I have mentioned this one before, for birthdays
in Germany it's the job of the person having the birthday to bring in some kind of cake
or other treat for everyone in the office, whereas in the U.S. it's often the case
that the office will get the person having the birthday a cake, or sometimes in bigger
offices it's like, everyone having a birthday in that particular month shares one cake so
that the office is not just spending the entire month organizing different cake parties.
Now how about a little chit-chat.
If you've been watching my videos for a while now, I think you might know where this
is going.
Okay, what do you think?
Companies in which country generally have more chit-chat at, say, the start of a meeting?
If you guessed the U.S., you'd be correct! Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding! Congratulations.
Yes, meetings in the U.S. often start with a little small-talk, whereas meetings in Germany
often seem to get right to the point.
And lastly, when applying for a job in Germany it's often requested that you send in a
photo of yourself with your CV.
And I was really quite shocked when I first read that in a job advert here in Germany.
Please include a photo of yourself, what, why?
At first I just thought that it was just that one company, but then I saw it again and again
and again and I reailzed that actually, most of the places that I was applying to in Germany
asked for me to send in a photo.
As far as I could find, and I will link to to the information down below, employers in
the U.S. are not supposed to ask for a photo from the job applicant as it could lead to
discrimination, so, yeah, I was really shocked to see it being such a common thing here in Germany.
If anyone knows why it's done here in Germany, please let me know in the comments.
Thank you.
So my question for you is: What do you think of these workplace differences in Germany
and the U.S., and what other workplace differences have you noticed around the world?
Please let me know in the comments below.
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I just, I really can't just write on the graph paper.
Like, I can't write words on graph paper.
Like I want to put every little letter in the separate little squares.
So I will leave a link to that in the down... I did it!
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