Integrating refugees through work

It is lunch break at the Siemens Erlangen, Germany, campus. At a table in her company’s cafeteria, Andrea Scheerbaum is swiping on her phone, showing colleagues pictures of Damascus she received over the weekend. Since last year, just like many of her colleagues, Andrea has volunteered to be a ‘buddy’ to one of the about 150 refugees who participated in Siemens’ professional integration programmes by September 2016.