21.07.2024, Berlin.
The German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) is having difficulties in its work due to a shortage of personnel, Tagesspiegel reported on July 21.
The publication reports that the lack of qualified personnel has become a real problem. The BND currently has 6,500 employees. More than 700 vacancies remain unoccupied. At the same time, many employees do not want to give up the opportunity to work remotely one day a week. Some often take sick leave – more than 1,000 employees have had 30 or more sick days in a year, and that’s more than other agencies.
The so-called rotation principle also complicates the work of the German Foreign Intelligence Service. The publication gives an example: experts dealing with the North Korean missile program have to be occasionally reassigned and have to deal with financing issues. And experts on Russia, despite the shortage of specialists with Russian language skills, have to switch to the topic of South American drug cartels, the publication notes.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
