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Elon Musk just chose Berlin as the location for Tesla's newest factory. But the CEO might be wildly underestimating cultural differences between the US and Germany as Walmart, Amazon, and Chrysler have done before.

because it failed to recognize regulations around labor groups, working on Sundays, holiday entitlements, and sick leave.There are countless regulations in Germany that companies from the US are not used to," Rainer Beekes told Business Insider in an interview.

, which have now become notorious: 70-hour weeks, queues in front of the toilet, production in tents. All this would not be possible in Brandenburg, at least not for long. The feedback culture in Germany is very different, she added. Germans praise less, but are much more open to criticism, while in the US, criticism is often much more subtle and hidden within praise.

"Tesla likes to experiment, which could be difficult to match with the thoroughness of German engineering," Geiß said.

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I’m sure he chose carefully and I think he knows what he’s doing, you just like to look for trash,I guess clickbait? Shame

Yes Elon reeeeaaaally struggles when dealing cross cultural boundaries, Luckily China is the 51st US state or GF3 wouldn’t have happened. 🙄

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