Urban trends change all the time, and dogs are no exception. Dachshunds are all the rage at the moment. The number of sausage dogs in Switzerland has risen by 46 per cent in the last seven years. What used to be a popular canine among the prim-and-proper middle class is now the designer dog of choice for young urbanites. What would Otto the dachshund say? Grrrrr, woof, woof! Source: research by Tamedia
No changing trends here: the Swiss still love card games. And Jass continues to be Switzerland’s undisputed national card game. Its most popular variant is “Schieber”, which is played with a 36-card deck. It is unclear how many Swiss play Jass, but the following statistic gives an idea: over one million Jass sets are sold every year. That is enough for four million Jass players to partake in a game of “Schieber” simultaneously. Source: research by NZZ Folio
But this is no game: more and more young IT specialists are losing their jobs. According to a study by the Swiss Economic Institute (KOF) at ETH Zurich, an unusually large number of digital natives in the IT sector are currently unemployed – because they have been replaced by AI. The number of young, jobless IT experts in Switzerland has doubled to 4,000 “surprisingly quickly”, the study says.
Source: KOF/ETH Zurich
If your net assets are 50 million Swiss francs or more, you probably don’t have too many job worries. In recent weeks, many around the country would have been forgiven for asking: where exactly in Switzerland do the 2,500 individuals with at least 50 million live?
The canton of Nidwalden has the highest density of super-rich: 22 out of every 10,000 inhabitants. Zurich leads the way in absolute terms, with 400. The canton of Fribourg is at the other end of the scale, with only 0.4 super-rich per 10,000 inhabitants. Source: data analysis by Tamedia
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