What Thorsten Ball thinks about Europe

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Co-founder of Amp and co-host of the Raising an Agent podcast. Wrote Writing an Interpreter in Go.

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1. 23 Oct 2026, 09:42 UTC

   Our readingNotice periods in the German industrial and manufacturing sectors will never change.

   Their wordsI know quite a few people working in industrial/manufacturing sector and they have a 6 months notice period. This will also never, ever change in Germany.

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