Millionaire boss Tim Gurner is slammed where it hurts the most – for calling Aussie workers 'arrogant'

A millionaire property developer has been ridiculed on LinkedIn after controversially accusing Australian workers of becoming ‘arrogant’ after Covid.Gurner Group CEO Tim Gurner, 41, sparked outrage on Tuesday when he said he wanted to see unemployment rise by 40 to 50 per cent.The Rich Lister noted there had been a big shift in the attitude many Aussies had towards working since the pandemic, and said employees needed to remember they were lucky to be employed.’We need to see pain in the economy,’ Mr Gurner told the Australian Financial Review’s Property Summit.’We need to remind people they work for the employer, not the other way around.’ But many have taken offence to Mr Gurner’s comments, with the property developer now facing a mountain of scathing criticism online – particularly on corporate social networking site LinkedIn.Ashadi Hopper, the director of digital advisory agency AH&O Advisory, called out Mr Gurner over his comments on needing ‘pain’ in the economy.’It certainly takes a special kind of genius to propose boosting the unemployment rate as the magic bullet for one’s own commercial woes,’ Mr Hopper said. Tim Gurner has been attacked online after he told a property summit unemployment needed to rise by up to 50 per
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