"Late shift" in three cities

On Friday, November 8, 2019, from 4:00 to 8:00 p.m., visitors can take a look behind the scenes at businesses in the Görlitz district. Participating companies will showcase themselves through short introductory presentations and offer factory tours, often while production is in full swing.

“Visitors can talk directly with employees, get a very personal impression of the company, and employees can even show their families their own workplace,” explains Andrea Behr, managing director of Europastadt GörlitzZgorzelec GmbH, which is responsible for economic development in Görlitz. Together with her economic development colleagues in Zittau and Weißwasser, she is organizing the event for the second time with the goal of giving visitors a firsthand look at local businesses and highlighting career and training opportunities in the region.

Those interested can download the program flyers at www.spaetschicht.eu and find printed flyers available at prominent locations in all three cities. Please note that you must register in advance for tours at some companies—the contact information for this can be found in the program flyers.

For the first time, visitors to Görlitz’s “Spätschicht” will have the opportunity to reach the companies via a free shuttle bus, making it as easy as possible to visit several businesses in one go. The three routes in total take visitors via several stops from Jakobstraße to the Hagenwerder industrial park, from the university campus to Gottlieb-Daimler-Straße, and from Hagenwerder to Gottlieb-Daimler-Straße. All three routes depart on the hour and return from the final stop to the starting point every half hour.

The "Spätschicht" project is a cooperation between the business development agencies of the three towns of Zittau, Weißwasser and Görlitz, the Görlitz and Zittau offices of the Dresden Chamber of Industry and Commerce and the Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences. The business development agencies of the three towns of Zittau, Weißwasser and Görlitz have applied for and been granted funding for the organization and implementation of the event via the Görlitz Skilled Workers Alliance. This measure is co-financed with tax revenue on the basis of the budget approved by the members of the Saxon state parliament.