People Article January 12, It may all sound good on paper and look nice on the wall in Ogg, point type but does it really reflect the employee experience here? The year-old originally from Narbonne, France, was hardly a corporate type when he came to Zurich in Anything but. He was a manny — a male nanny, that is — an occupation that, years ago, may have inspired a Ben Stiller comedy or produced chuckles around the collective water cooler of private industry. And Zurich may well have been one of those companies.
But not the Zurich of today. Nicolas, who is in the Integrated Talent Management team, fully admits that he had reservations about working in insurance at first.
Next to him is a sumptuous, five-paneled print by Pop artist extraordinaire and New Yorker Roy Lichtenstein though by all accounts neither cranky nor acerbic. The OHI is a diagnostic tool that enables companies to track and focus on those aspects of the organization that they want to shift and change. The results illustrated a company culture that was broken and in need of upgrades — in terms of leadership, motivation, and work environment.
Upper management got onboard, and the next survey in showed double-digit improvements. While the work continues — as it always must for a company to remain relevant in a fast-changing market — the momentum has had staying power. She did some research on professional networks and spoke to someone she knew at the company for feedback. It all sounded good — on paper. People here really enjoy what they do. I realize that everyone feels important. That said, Yani, originally from Venezuela, has been impressed with how Zurich appears to be attentive to the well-being of its employees — something Alessandra also cited — and encourages them to learn new skills.
Her supervisor, for instance, gave her responsibilities above and beyond her tasks as a business analyst to be a project manager in a digital transformation program. It was different a decade ago, a more traditional corporate environment: guys in suits, women in pencil skirts, formal meeting structures.
