Last but not least: Turnover determines closeness to God

 The German Springer Group is currently providing a somewhat absurd lesson in how to fuel the competitive situation within a company. The imminent relocation of the Bild editorial offices from Hamburg to the Springer high-rise in Berlin - currently only home to Welt and Berliner Morgenpost - has led to an amusing battle for occupancy. Actually, the battle between the blue Welt Group and the red Bild Group has already been decided from afar. The chief editors of the Bild newspaper, led by Kai Diekmann, will move into the 16th floor of the high-rise in the spring. Christoph Keese, editor-in-chief of Welt am Sonntag, Welt Online and spokesman for the entire Welt and Berliner Morgenpost group, will have to move to the 14th floor. The new newsroom of the Welt newspapers will also have to make way for the red faction: The Bild am Sonntag team will soon be setting up shop on the 15th floor. The blue papers will have to prepare their news on the humiliatingly low 14th floor. Of course, this is no coincidence. "Whoever brings in more money gets to sit higher up," says the board, which is located at the divine height of the 18th floor, thus intensifying the rivalry between the profitable Bild and the loss-making Welt Group. Somehow you feel very sorry for the employees on the first floor.