As a Swiss company, Baloise is passionate about voluntary work. We regularly organise employee events based on this topic at our Head Office, with the aim of motivating our employees to participate on a voluntary basis.
Baloise is also one of the signatories of the declaration by economiesuisse and the Confederation of Swiss Employers, which highlights the importance of the militia principle. This declaration is an obligation as well as a responsibility for Baloise to support the volunteer work of its employees in the best possible way.
We not only promote the political involvement of our employees through flexible working conditions and working time models, but also support the political participation of young people. In 2019, we led a workshop for the campaign “Change Switzerland!” with young people to develop ideas that they submitted via the platform www.engage.ch.
The Association of Swiss Communes (ASC) declared 2019 the “Year of militia work”. The goal is to strengthen and develop the militia system through interdisciplinary exchange and discussion. As a partner, we support this project, the ideas competition and the associated event “Sustainable militia system 2030”.
In cooperation with the Basel Chamber of Commerce, we support the business weeks which bring high school students closer to business contexts and offer them a business-oriented learning experience via teamwork. On the one hand, Baloise employees work as specialised teachers in the context of a business week, and on the other, we also enable schools to hold a business week on our premises. This allows high school students to experience the real working atmosphere of a company. For us, the communication of business contexts to younger generations as well as the cooperation between a school and a business are the main focus.