Valeriana Magazine

A Fresh Look at Cleanliness: Valeriana vs. Your Daily Coffee

Imagine standing in line every morning for your coffee to kickstart the day. Sounds familiar, right? But here's the kicker: have you ever thought about how much you spend on your daily coffee fix over a year? A quick grab for the calculator, and v...

Making key handovers even simpler now!

We've got a neat little update for you! Some of you might know it: the classic key handover. But sometimes, something old has to change to make way for something new. Before we get into the details, here's a little joke for you: "Why don't secret ...

Holistic Integration through IWE: How Valeriana Approaches Integration through Work, Education, and Community

As a company, Valeriana is committed to promoting the holistic integration of people from diverse backgrounds. We believe that integration can be achieved through work, education, and community. In this blog post, we would like to explain why and ...

Practice makes perfect

Does something look familiar to you? Learning something new can be difficult at the beginning… But if you really put your mind to it, you will eventually get the hang of it and the newly learned material will work like clockwork. We all feel the s...

Valeriana goes B2B with the unicorns of Unchained Commerce

We can still remember our very first busy enquiry for Valeriana as if it was yesterday. Vedran Rudelj, managing partner at Unchained Commerce, was our first business partner in crime (and partner in doing good). So, what does Unchained Commerce do...

Community workshop: empowering women at work

Last Thursday, Valeriana organised a workshop evening for our team of employees. The theme? “Empowering women at work”. Anne Marie Schulte, career coach and founder of Impact Vision, created a programme based on our theme. More specifically, the w...

Every face has a story: meet Hatun, the first Valeriana woman

Without her, there would be no Valeriana: Hatun was our first Valeriana woman and the reason why we can empower more and more people with a migration background and help them become more independent today.

Valeriana recipe cuisine: A culinary trip to Sri Lanka

Today we have "Kottu Roti" in the Valeriana recipe cuisine – a very popular dish in Sri Lankan or Tamil cuisine and one of the favourite recipes of our employee Karunahari! Although she has lived in Switzerland for 20 years, she still knows the pr...

The Sustainable Development Goals at Valeriana

Did you know that Valeriana is also guided by the UN’s “Sustainable Development Goals” (SDGs)? No?! Well, then let us start from the beginning and tell you why they’re so important to us and what they’re all about.

Every face has a story: Meet Ubah our self-confident power woman

The morning was a bit cool, but the sunbeams made their way between the buildings and the streets of Zurich's Wipkinger neighborhood. Ubah stood in front of the Nordbrücke café, where we had arranged our meeting. She was ready for the interview ...

Our biggest sewing order yet

Ho – ho – ho! Did anyone ask for a high-speed record? Just before Christmas, we had the opportunity to work on an exciting project for our customer Alpinamed. The order: 200 fabric bags plus 200 elastic bands with the Alpinamed logo as Christmas g...

Corporate social community event hosted by Valeriana – live baking & punch

At the beginning of December, our Valeriana client Sylwia came to us with an exciting proposition. The world-famous tech company she works for was planning a virtual Christmas party for its employees and was looking for a host.

Every face has a story: Embaba’s success story

Embaba first came to Switzerland around four years ago and has now been with Valeriana for almost two of those years. She has basically been there since the very beginning and has become an integral part of our team. That is why we think that it’s...

Making Christmas biscuits with the Valeriana community

This year’s Christmas features not only tasty treats but also Eritrean coffee and Ethiopian Christmas music! Well, at least that’s the case when we invite our staff for a Christmas Valeriana bake-off, as we did last Sunday at the GZ Buchegg commun...

When everything goes smoothly at our ironing training course

Another Saturday, another training: After our employees learnt how to correctly clean ovens and refrigerators two weeks ago, today they are going to use the iron and practise the correct folding technique.

Valeriana’s recipe kitchen: culinary excursions!

The way to a person’s heart is through his or her stomach. And just like with love, there’s also a lot we can learn about each other in the kitchen. That’s why today we’re taking you on a culinary journey to Ethiopia, where two of our employees’ f...

Meet the team: Today more about Daniel

Daniel is the second part of Code & Design Duos. The coding duo Daniel and Rodrigo solve all existing issues around the Valeriana booking platform and website in teamwork. Daniel is the Co-Founder of codegestalt and master21. Rodrigo and him have ...

Refrost, defrost: our first refrigerator and oven cleaning training session

“Hey, you’re early!” It’s Saturday morning, just after half past seven. Our employee Mitu is already at the front door of the building where our next Valeriana training session will be held. “I live nearby. My husband is a sous chef at the Daizy j...

Meet the team: today more about Rodrigo

Rodrigo is one half of the code & design duo. Since the very beginning, Rodrigo and Daniel have been the geniuses behind our Valeriana platform, through which you can book our services, as well as our website. Salomé and Rodrigo met at a coding we...

Meet our new website!

What’s that thing shining and glittering in the autumn sun? Well, that could only be our new website, of course! And — wow — is it shiny and new! Let us show you what we’ve been working on for the past few months and why we’re so proud of it!

How we make the life of our employees easier with apps

A virtual walk to your favourite café in Paris? Communicate despite the language barrier. Nowadays, technology makes all this and much more possible. To make life and work even easier for our employees, we recently invited them to the Valeriana...

Every face has a story: Meet Nardos

“Hi, how are you?” There it is again, the typically warm and slightly timid “Nardos smile” that she always brings with her wherever she goes. Nardos has now been working at Valeriana for about two years. So, we thought that it was about time that ...

Meet the team: Today more about Salomé

Without Salomé, Valeriana wouldn’t exist because the foundation of it was her idea and when it came to implementing the project she put her money where her mouth was. Today you will find out how the foundation came about and what else our power wo...

Valeriana in a nutshell

Hi! You’re new here, aren’t you? Allow us to briefly introduce ourselves and break the ice — we’ll keep it short and sweet. (If you already know us inside and out, then you’re very welcome to skip ahead to the end of the article — we’re not stri...

Meet the team: Today more about Bora

Who is Bora? Today you will find out some things about him, for example what Bora likes to do in his spare time, which book he would strongly recommends and of course what Valeriana means to him and how he created his path before the foundation of...

How we help our staff become experts in all things cleaning

Saturday morning, 8.00 am, the sun is shining — the perfect conditions for cleaning windows! At the start of our third training session, our cleaning experts Tarsi asks the group: “And? Has anything improved since last time?” “Everything!”, the gr...

Having your chores done while doing good at the same time — is that even possible? With Valeriana it is!

Today, we are going to look at a few facts and figures about people with a migration background who work in the housekeeping sector. We’ve gathered this information from UN Women’s “How Migration is a Gender Equality issue” page.

All hands on deck for the second Valeriana training session!

Last Saturday, we launched the second round of our professional cleaning training course led by cleaning expert Tarsi Athanasiadis. The beginning of this week’s training session looked a little more like a chemistry class the way we may remember i...

A look back on the last Valeriana cleaning training session

“How many threads are there in a single microfibre cloth?” Cleaning expert Tarsi Athanasiadis holds one of our cleaning cloths up in the air and eagerly looks at our cleaning staff. “100 metres” someone guesses, “150!”. When someone says “1,000 me...

Valeriana has a new face!

Earlier in March, we decided to change things up a little, although “a little” in this case turned out to be a pretty big deal for us: Since last week, our website has been adorned with new illustrations by the absolutely brilliant artist Andrea V...

At the home office with Valeriana (and happy New Year!)

Hello 2021! Everyone at Valeriana would like to wish you a happy new year! Even though, admittedly, the new year has pretty much started the way the previous one had ended: The coronavirus has still got the world — and that includes Switzerland —...

Reporting on the Startup Night in Winterthur — review and outlook

What can we say other than: wow! Two weeks after the 2020 Startup Night on 25 September in Winterthur, we’re still totally beside ourselves. Despite the coronavirus, around 900 guests flocked to the Technopark Winterthur on invitation from the Ent...