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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Bevan Hurley

Millionaire CEO wants unemployment to jump to 50% because workers have become ‘arrogant’

Australian Financial Review/X

A multi-millionaire property developer from Australia has sparked fury for calling for unemployment to rise to 50 per cent while claiming workers became “arrogant” during Covid.

Gurner Group CEO Tim Gurner told the Australian Financial Review’s Property Summit that productivity had plummeted during the global pandemic as “people decided they didn't really want to work so much”.

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