The gossip of the day requires a gossip source:
Plan to merge the current 10 Migros cooperatives into a single one. Get rid of zero marginal productivity workers, save money and the organization.
Vote probably next year. The change is approved with all 100 cooperatives voting Yes and 2/3 of YES votes.
Wait a min, how this came to be? How an organization that doesn’t have to yield profit ends up being defeated by for-profit organizations? Migros Zürich loosing 2 billion CHF while fooling around in Germany.
Migros Zürich is about 1/3 of the Migros capital and it has the employees doing vital functions for other Migros cooperatives (supplier management, logistics, IT). So, that’s why the other 9 cooperatives can’t let Migros Zürich collapse and remain open, they’re not independent.
What changes in daily Swiss life?
- Hundreds of middle managers with a cozy corporate life about to work on their CVs.
- An oncoming tidal wave of complaints about how the job market does not value middle managers.
