Corporate citizenship and development of management staff

Companies have the opportunity to send suitable, committed employees with management skills as instructors to Economy Weeks.  

Benefits of delegating staff to Economy Weeks 

• Further development of management staff: The instructors' commitment can be used as an effective instrument in the further development of management staff (as a stimulus or training tool).
• Further training of staff: As instructors, employees receive "on the job" training without additional costs in teaching methodology, presentation and management; they acquire deeper understanding of the total web of connections in enterprise.
• Corporate social responsibility: Effective social contribution to communities in Switzerland.
• Contact with the next generation: Through the work of instructors, school students will receive a lively, realistic picture of companies and their employees.
• Team building and motivation of staff: Satisfaction with the employer who makes a fulfilling social commitment possible.
• Networking with other companies: Work as an instructor can create new contacts to other sectors of commerce and industry.

Requirements for employees

Scope of commitment

Companies that send their staff to Economy Weeks must be prepared to release them for work as instructors every 1-2 years as a rule. An Economy Week lasts for 5 working days. Delegation of instructors is not linked to financial sponsoring.

Further options for companies to support Economy Weeks

• Local support of Economy Weeks, for example as host to school classes (making seminar rooms on the company premises available; guided tour of the company premises)
• Financial; contributions to the national Economy Week Pool. Cost contributions to individual Economy Weeks are made from this pool.