Good - But good enough?

For Economiesuisse representative Rudolf Minsch, it is also clear that another crisis is inevitable. However, he says that Switzerland has already experienced many crises and that its experience with such shocks is helping it to cope better with these developments. He is, however, worried about the mountains of debt being shouldered by countries and companies alike. SEF participants do have concrete ideas about what needs to change in the future. Take working from home, for example. According to Chief Operating Officer Sabine Keller-Busse, UBS assumes that more employees will work partially and more flexibly from home in the future – perhaps up Switzerland needs to do more in the area of cybersecurity, as more and more people are working from their home offices. In addition to innovation in digital transformation, protection of digital infrastructure must be addressed by government and business. What happens when the world of work gets a makeover by being organised in a to one third of the total workforce. Many participants also believe that

decentralised way? Other, new working models emerge. Employment law will also have to be adapted for this transformation. FDP President Petra Gössi is happy to accept the recommendations. The new world also raises challenges in terms of policy. Over and above any concerns about her own company, Sabine Keller-Busse is one of several people to wonder how companies can treat all employees equally in a world of working from home, in everything from communicating with them to lifelong training. What does such a new world mean for the state? The advice is for thinking to move away from physical national borders towards virtual borders, depending on the level of risk, so that problems with those crossing borders, for example, can be better managed if new outbreaks of infection occur. Despite the uncertainty, the underlying mood remains positive. What we need to do now is to harness the momentum for change and not let inertia set in. A new lifestyle may also emerge – and this must be anticipated.

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The future is bleak – but not for us