Many entrepreneurs have found themselves in recent weeks in a dilemma of whether it is worth signing a new, significantly more expensive long-term contract for electricity than the previous one and thus receive a certain discount or gamble and see if the price will drop significantly in a relatively short time. As things stand, high electricity prices are not going anywhere soon. We do not know what is best to do at this moment, we have nothing to hold on to, there are no interlocutors who could provide us with solid arguments on which we could plan – this is almost the same conclusion of entrepreneurs facing new offers for energy supply. In the topic of the week, Željka Laslavić writes about electricity and the dilemmas of entrepreneurs.
Croatia is again not among the most productive countries in the world. It is not a big surprise, just as it is not surprising that we are not even close to the top of the list even when looking only at the European Union. The Croatian worker, it is a commonly held belief, is simply unproductive compared to workers in other countries, and there seems to be no remedy for that. If we take into account the most expert definitions, which state that productivity is actually the difference between hours worked and the value of products, i.e., delivered goods and services, which is simply lower in our case than in other countries, we can somewhat penetrate the reasons for our unproductivity compared to others. And they are not, as some like to suggest, the fact that we are lazy and slack off. Ksenija Puškarić writes about productivity.
