Brought to you by the same country whose people have chosen last week to limit the right of free movement of European citizens. This is not a good time to start a technology business in Switzerland.
The only reason most of these people (myself included) don't speak out is that they have been schooled to be grateful for the fact that they have a job in a "developed" country. ["If you don't like it, just leave!"] Which is, admittedly, our situation -- so we STFU. It feels like one of those dreams when you want to open your mouth and scream...but no sound comes out.
I'd rather work in Switzerland any day, even with their proposed system (which is supposed to come into play after 3 years, and has quotas).
Without access to the EU workforce, Swiss businesses have access to a workforce market of 8 million people.
It's possible Switzerland will cover some of the damage by pulling the money they would've contributed towards the EU research framework, and using it to increase domestic research funding instead. Will have to wait and see how that goes.
"Switzerland's contribution to the total budget of Horizon 2020 of about EUR 81.6 billion sums up to around CHF 4.4 billion, over a seven-year period. The corresponding budget appropriation was approved by the Federal Assembly on 10 September 2013."
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