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Leveraging Parents, Schools, and Social Media to Increase Youth Financial Literacy

24 Jan 2024 5 minutes

Financial literacy is at its lowest in the young and elderly segments of the population. Discover in this blog post how businesses can employ social media to get youths interested in financial topics.

Mindfulness in the Workplace: A Path to Greater Productivity and Well-Being

13 Dec 2023 6 minutes

In today’s fast-paced and highly competitive business world, employees often have many balls to juggle at once and shoulder a lot of responsibility. But employees’ well-being mustn’t be neglected. Read below how incorporating mindfulness into the daily work routine enables this equilibrium.

Bridging Cultures: from Madrid to Zurich and Beyond

02 Nov 2023 4 minutes

SIX offers an 18-month International Graduate Program for graduates with a degree in business, economics, IT, or communications. The program involves graduates working in four different business units – one of which is located abroad. Nadja Tungprasert went to Madrid. Marina Mendicute Alza traveled to Zurich. They share their impressions and experiences in interview below.

“We Can Achieve a Great Deal, but When It Comes to Sustainability, Everyone Has to Pitch In.”

24 Sep 2023 4 minutes

As a key player in the financial markets, SIX promotes the sustainable and responsible development of the financial markets. Read on to discover how Fabienne Strobel, Head Sustainability at SIX wants to take sustainability within the company to the next level.

How I Develop My Personality – and Benefit from It at Work

06 Sep 2023 7 minutes

What would you most like to change about yourself? Whether we want to become more patient, self-confident, neater, or assertive, for most of us there’s something that comes to mind. In this article, you will learn how you can develop your personality, and how important this is for your career.

Doing an Apprenticeship in IT as a Woman: “A Forward-Looking Profession with a Lot of Variety”

17 May 2023 3 minutes

Lea Zürcher finished her training as an IT specialist at SIX in summer 2022. The young woman is thus counteracting the worsening shortage of skilled labor in the IT sector. Read in the interview below why it’s a shame that men still account for the vast majority of her co-workers.

A Day of Work for a Good Cause – How SIX Employees Go to Bat for Our Environment and Society

30 Mar 2023 4 minutes

Employees of SIX trudge through a snowy winter landscape. What is this all about? It means that SIX Social Days are back after a lengthy hiatus caused by the pandemic. Read below how and where employees of SIX are getting involved all over the place.

Formula Student: When Students Build the Future of Electric Cars

15 Sep 2022 5 minutes

SIX is a dedicated sponsor of the EPFL Racing Team, a group of students who build a new electric race car every year to compete on the Formula Student circuit. This blog post gives you a peek behind the scenes of the engineering competition for students.

Working from Home Sustainably: 5 Tips for the Office inside Your Own 4 Walls

07 Sep 2022 6 minutes

At first, many employees were forced to stay home during the pandemic. Today, many of them are allowed to work from home if they wish. When a temporary arrangement becomes an everyday routine, new challenges arise. This blog post gives you some useful tips on how to work sustainably in your office at home.

Women Belong in IT, Right Where They’ve Always Been

17 Aug 2022 4 minutes

Women are sorely underrepresented in the field of computer science. Discover in our blog post how this wasn’t always the case and doesn’t have to be today. Three women in IT at SIX tell their stories.

Mental Stress when Working from Home? – Taking Stock after Two Years of Pandemic

23 Mar 2022 5 minutes

Working from home creates flexibility, but can also cause psychological stress. This makes it all the more important for workers to get professional support when needed. Learn in this blog post what effects working from home can have on our mental health and what aspects need to be taken into consideration in new working models.

Jan Bieser

Is Working from Home Better for Our Climate?

02 Feb 2022 6 minutes

Homeworking – a blessing for many, a curse for others. And what about for our climate? In the following interview, Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute senior researcher Dr. Jan Bieser reveals how homeworking affects our environment and explains how companies can structure remote work to minimize impacts on our climate.

Hannah Zaunmüller

Working from Home Works

06 Dec 2021 2 minutes

Hannah Zaunmüller has been the Chief Human Resources Officer and a member of the Extended Executive Board at SIX since February 2021. After stints at Deutsche Post DHL and Swiss Post, the German-Swiss dual citizen most recently held the same role at media group Ringier prior to joining SIX. She is convinced that a hybrid approach to working is the model of the future.

Working from Anywhere

18 Aug 2021 4 minutes

“Do you think there’s a possibility of companies introducing a new global standard of Remote First?” Alina-Maria Weide posed this question to the audience at TEDxSIX. That’s because she is convinced that employees are more efficient working under flexible conditions and off-site. She is a Senior Product Manager at SIX, and has worked from home since her first day on the job in April 2020.

Inspired by Margaret Hamilton: The Importance of Female References

03 Jun 2021 18 minutes

At BME Inntech, Berta Ares and her team work on technological innovations for the financial markets. Margaret Hamilton is a daily inspiration for her. In our podcast, she tells us among other things how the pioneer of software engineering enabled Neil Armstrong to set foot on the moon.

Inspired by Johan Cruyff: The Way to Play

17 Dec 2020 22 minutes

SIX CEO Jos Dijsselhof explains in our podcast how the Dutch soccer legend Johan Cruyff inspired him and what it takes for a company to “score” in a growing market.

SIX Participates in Powercoders Program

21 Oct 2020 1 minute

The non-profit organization Powercoders arranges IT internships for migrants at renowned companies. On Tuesday, job providers and job seekers met for "speed dating" at the SIX Convention Point in Zurich. SIX also offered open positions.

7 Steps toward Attracting More Female Talent at SIX

05 Oct 2020 4 minutes

Studies show that a more diverse workforce brings about many benefits for a company. SIX has a highly diverse workforce in terms of languages and cultural backgrounds. However, women are underrepresented at almost every level – especially in senior positions. Therefore, SIX is striving to grow the percentage of women at each middle and top management level to a minimum of 25% by 2023. Learn the seven steps SIX has taken to get closer to this objective.

“Girls 4 IT” Day: Playfully Learning What IT Is

27 Feb 2020 6 minutes

SIX hosted its inaugural “Girls 4 IT” day. Around 40 schoolgirls learned about career possibilities and got acquainted with coding at the SIX headquarters in Zurich.

Programming Is Not Just a Man’s Game

22 Dec 2017 8 minutes

With the worldwide success of Niche – A Genetics Survival Game, game designer Philomena Schwab has proven that computer programming doesn’t have to be a man’s realm. Today she is a prefigurative role model, but interdisciplinary education programs and a societal change in thinking will hopefully soon make her the norm.

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Leveraging Parents, Schools, and Social Media to Increase Youth Financial Literacy

Mindfulness in the Workplace: A Path to Greater Productivity and Well-Being

Bridging Cultures: from Madrid to Zurich and Beyond

“We Can Achieve a Great Deal, but When It Comes to Sustainability, Everyone Has to Pitch In.”

Top Article

People & Culture

Doing an Apprenticeship in IT as a Woman: “A Forward-Looking Profession with a Lot of Variety”

Explore Related Articles

Read More Articles in This Category

Leveraging Parents, Schools, and Social Media to Increase Youth Financial Literacy

Mindfulness in the Workplace: A Path to Greater Productivity and Well-Being

Bridging Cultures: from Madrid to Zurich and Beyond

“We Can Achieve a Great Deal, but When It Comes to Sustainability, Everyone Has to Pitch In.”

How I Develop My Personality – and Benefit from It at Work

Doing an Apprenticeship in IT as a Woman: “A Forward-Looking Profession with a Lot of Variety”

A Day of Work for a Good Cause – How SIX Employees Go to Bat for Our Environment and Society

Formula Student: When Students Build the Future of Electric Cars

Working from Home Sustainably: 5 Tips for the Office inside Your Own 4 Walls

Women Belong in IT, Right Where They’ve Always Been

Mental Stress when Working from Home? – Taking Stock after Two Years of Pandemic

Is Working from Home Better for Our Climate?

Working from Home Works

Working from Anywhere

Inspired by Margaret Hamilton: The Importance of Female References

Inspired by Johan Cruyff: The Way to Play

SIX Participates in Powercoders Program

7 Steps toward Attracting More Female Talent at SIX

“Girls 4 IT” Day: Playfully Learning What IT Is

Programming Is Not Just a Man’s Game

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