The labor market in Switzerland is booming and offers numerous job opportunities, including for older workers. According to Manpower's employment outlook for the third quarter of 2024, 54% of Swiss companies plan to increase their workforce in the next three months.[1] This opens up opportunities for job seekers of all ages, especially for experienced professionals over 50. High demand in [...]

"O.k., boomers!" is often heard derisively from Generation Z and the millennials. That sounds more like a conflict than a dream team. So how and where do the young and the old fit together? Where many people don't expect it: At work. We explain why, and what this means for companies. The baby boomers are saying goodbye [...]

Start Ups meet Seniors - Review of our 2nd Start Up Speeddating on 18.5.2022 Start Ups and seniors, how does that work together? We at seniors@work know: it's a perfect match! For the second time, we organized a speed dating event in May 2022, where we brought startup founders together with retired executives. How [...]

  Success story: seniors@work connects ex-CEO of Microsoft Switzerland & Start Up By Annette Ehrhardt, seniors@work Peter Waser, the former country head of Microsoft Switzerland and CEO of Starmind, has been increasingly active in the start-up world for several years, is involved in numerous projects and also holds several board mandates. He has also been involved with seniors@work since [...]

  Gray panthers to combat the skills shortage - is this the solution? By Annette Ehrhardt, seniors@work, and Nicole B. Stucki, HR Director Selecta Switzerland Finding suitable employees, especially experienced specialists, is becoming increasingly difficult. In the discussion about solutions, one potential is usually overlooked: working with retired 60-75 year olds and thus utilizing the immense wealth of experience of older [...]

Client of the month (04/2022): Christian Witwicki, courierfactory seniors@work: Mr. Witwicki, you are CEO and - together with your wife - founder of courierfactory GmbH, a specialist for appointment shipments in the pharmaceutical sector. You are a "manufactory" with 38 employees in Switzerland and Germany, where speed, precision and an individual approach to each [...]

The Zurich start-up CARIFY (www.carify.me) is now known throughout the country as the largest platform for car subscriptions in Switzerland. Customers can change their car according to their mood (or the weather and season): a convertible in summer, an SUV in winter. The dream of many drivers! To ensure that the vehicles are delivered to the customer's home or [...]

Candidate of the month (03/2022): Iris Lentjes, HR expert seniors@work: Iris, as HR Manager and member of the Executive Board at a whole host of well-known companies such as Livit (Uto Albis), MSC, Bombardier and Weka Business Media, you can look back on an impressive career. And long before you retired, you also worked independently as a leadership coach and HR consultant [...].