Tim Gurner Bio, Parents, Wife, Children, Siblings, Net Worth: Tim Gurner is a millionaire property developer and the founder of Gurner Group.

In September 2023, he hit the headlines following statements he made at the Financial Review Property Summit in Australia on Tuesday, 12 September.

The Gurner Group CEO sparked outrage on Tuesday when he said he wanted to see unemployment rise by 40 to 50 percent.

During the summit, Gurner noted that workers have become “arrogant” after the COVID pandemic where he also shared his solution to “kill their attitude”

According to Gurner, “We need to remind people they work for the employer, not the other way around,” and the easiest way to do that is to start laying people off”. He said ;

“I think the problem that we’ve had is that people decided they didn’t really want to work so much anymore through COVID and that has had a massive issue on productivity”

“Tradies have definitely pulled back on productivity. They have been paid a lot to do not too much in the last few years and we need to see that change. We need to see unemployment rise”

“Unemployment has to jump 40-50% in my view. We need to see the pain in the economy. We need to remind people they work for the employer, not the other way around”

“There’s been a systematic change where employees feel the employer is extremely lucky to have them as opposed to the other way around, so it’s dynamic that has to change”

“We’ve got to kill that attitude and that has to come through hurting the economy, which is what the whole global – the world – is trying to do. The governments around the world are trying to increase unemployment to get that to some sort of normality and we’re seeing it”

“I think every employer now is seeing it. I mean there is definitely massive layoffs going off. People might not be talking about it but people are definitely laying people off and we’re starting to see less arrogance in the employment market and that has to continue because that will cascade across the cost balance”

As a clip of Gurner’s remarks went viral, the Financial Review was forced to shut down replies but not before X users had a field day slamming Gurner for his statements.

Tim Gurner Age

Tim Gurner’s date of birth and for that matter, his age is unknown to us at this time of writing. However, he’s believed to be in his late 30s

Tim Gurner Height & Weight

Tim Gurner height’s and weight are unknown to us at this time of writing. However, he has a decent height and weight that suits his personality