The digital catastropheWhy has the service of a state institution become significantly less user-friendly with 27% more staff? One would have expected a halving of the staff.In 1976 I got my first programmable calculator, in 1979 my first computer, an apple ][. From 1982 to 1985, I was a system programmer at SKIDATA, then self-employed in the software sector. But today I have to write about the digital catastrophe. Why? Because many things have become grotesquely complicated instead of simple, let's take the registration of an employee. In 1988, I registered my wife as a self-employed employee. So I drove to the regional health insurance fund and looked for a parking space. I can't remember if it was a paid short-term parking zone back then, so I asked an employee where I had to go. There was an official there who probably dealt with twenty such cases a day, who then filled out the form with me. It was easy, any employer could do it. On February 2024, I registered my daughter Maria as a part-time employee. My battle through the digital jungle. The company account at the UPS company service portal is not enough. So I had to register again somewhere else. After all, I think most entrepreneurs hire a company that specializes in this kind of thing. Then every few months I received a reminder for small amounts of less than €10. So if my e-mail address is known for sending reminders, why don't they just send an invoice?
In 1988, you were still personally assisted by an employee at the GKK when registering. Today this is only possible online in a very complicated way. How many employees did the GKK have in 1988 and today? Comparison of the number of employees at the GKK (Steiermärkische Gebietskrankenkasse, today ÖGK branch office Styria) Steiermärkische Gebietskrankenkasse (GKK) existed as an independent institution until the merger with Österreichische Gesundheitskasse (ÖGK) in 2020. The personnel figures therefore refer to the historical status in 1988 and the current number of positions (full-time equivalents) of the ÖGK branch in Styria for 2024.
Between 1988 and 1994, the number at GKK Steiermark rose slightly to 1,243 ( 72 employees), which was part of a general trend among regional health insurance funds. Today, the number of staff at the Styrian branch of ÖGK is slightly higher, which could be due to digitalization and increasing numbers of insured persons - in line with your observation about the shift from face-to-face to online care.
Because I didn't mention Salzburg, Grok used Styria as an example. But with all the digitalization, I would have expected at least a halving of the workforce, but certainly not 20% more employees. They have managed to make it much more complicated for a simple employer by employing 20% more staff. Question for Grok: Is it possible to estimate how many external employees were deployed in 1988 and today? I think the digitization was carried out by external service providers. Here's a PDF with the entire discussion. The estimate is 0 to 20 in 1988 and 50 to 150 in 2025. In each case, adding the mean of the estimates: 1171 10 = 1181. But 1404 100 = 1504. Wow, including the external staff we are up 27%. Cost savings and service improvements through digitalization really do seem to be a resounding success.
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