Swiss Re is a global leader in reinsurance and insurance-based risk transfer, dedicated to building a more resilient world. By combining deep expertise, data-driven insights, and financial strength, Swiss Re anticipates and manages risk.
With 75% of risks—such as climate change and cybercrime—still uninsured, Swiss Re aims to close the gap. Founded in 1863 and headquartered in Zurich, the company operates in 70 offices worldwide with 14,400 employees. Its business units develop tailored solutions and drive growth, providing clients with financial security, especially in times of uncertainty and transition.
Whether you’re an employer or an employee—office design matters. For employees, it‘s a quality that makes you proud to come to work. It might have even factored into your decision to join the company in the first place. For employers, enabling your employees through thoughtful, high-functioning office design has a huge impact on the company’s bottom line. As one of the world‘s leading providers of reinsurance and insurance, Swiss Re is dedicated to making the world more resilient — and that begins at their headquarters. Swiss Re offers fresh perspectives, knowledge, and capital to help business of all types better anticipate and manage risk. To accomplish these goals, employees need a supportive office design, which is why Swiss Re launched the Smart Building and Service Solution Initiative. To realize the project Swiss Re needed a strong partner and therefore turned to NetCloud – Switzerland‘s leading experts in planning, implementing, and managing ICT solutions.
"The detailed insights we‘re gaining will enable us to create higher functioning, more productive, and more collaborative offices for our employees."
Once the scope of the project was defined, NetCloud acted as a general contractor and with Swiss Re’s underlying data of the Cisco infrastructure, NetCloud suggested to build on top with Tango Occupancy by Locatee‘s solution. By allowing Cisco to team up with Tango, the existing IT infrastructure was leveraged and allowed the analysis of workspace utilization across the entire real estate portfolio, individual buildings, floors, and departments. This approach helps to reduce maintenance to a minimum while providing continuous and real-time data. The insights allow Swiss Re to reduce costs, while also ensuring employees needs are being met – just in a more efficient manner than ever before.
Tango Occupancy Locatee‘s platform was rolled out throughout the entire real estate portfolio and allowed the Corporate Real Estate team to make fact-based decisions.
Easy implementation: The solution was deployed remotely by NetCloud and Tango Occupancy by Locatee. Now Swiss Re has portfolio-wide visibility and is able to optimize resources for maximum impact from both a design and
financial perspective.
Real-time insights: The insights show which buildings are underutilized and why. By taking a granular look at the data, even down to specific floors in various offices. Key stakeholders such as Corporate Real Estate
and Facilities Management have access to data and can extract valuable insights out of it.
Realizing savings potential: Based on insights, Swiss Re decided to decrease the space in the Munich Office by 10% because it wasn‘t utilized and could be reduced without detriment to the employees. The reduced space included workplaces, shared offices, meeting rooms, and think tanks. The reduction will save €290,000 per year in the Munich office alone.
The financial benefits to Swiss Re are obvious. It will now be easier to see where time, money, and attention should be directed to have the biggest impact on long-term goals. In addition, it will enable employees to work smarter on a daily basis. The insights that they now have available will enable to create higher functioning, more productive, and more collaborative offices for their employees. The leading companies of tomorrow invest in their employees today.