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ur-whale an hour ago

> Switzerland is relatively highly educated so this might be less of a challenge than in other countries but it won't be easy.

True, but that's not accounting for a bunch of typically Swiss cultural factors:

- Swiss people tend to love to death the "one standard solution for one particular problem" approach

- Swiss people tend to be quite change-averse relative to other nearby cultures.

Don't get me wrong I love the Swiss to death, and the above cultural biases actually have their advantages, but re-training government employees is not going to be easy, however well educated they may be.

Fortunately, there is another cultural Swiss bias that's going to help: most large Swiss organizations have been designed using the army as a model, which mean Swiss employees tend to obey orders quite well.

So if the mandate comes from the top, it'll likely succeed. Eventually. Cause in Switzerland, they tend to take their time (yeah, that's another base cultural cliché, but I couldn't resist. And we're already deep into those already, why stop :-) ).