Kollabo: A Rising Star in Workforce Placement
Who is Kollabo?
Kollabo started back in 2018 in Zurich. In just a few years it grew into something big, especially for people who work with their hands – builders, electricians, plumbers, carpenters, you name it. The whole idea is pretty simple: connect these skilled workers with companies that need them right now. What makes Kollabo different from old-school job boards is the smart use of artificial intelligence. Instead of someone sitting there for hours looking through piles of CVs, the system reads the job description, looks at the worker’s skills (which are all written in the same clear way), and boom – it shows the best matches in seconds.
Right now the platform has more than 30,000 skilled workers ready to jump on a job. For a staffing agency that needs ten bricklayers tomorrow morning, that speed is gold. No more endless phone calls and missed messages. It just works faster and usually finds someone who actually fits the job.
Kollabo’s Role in the DACH Region
Most of Kollabo’s business happens in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland – people call that area DACH for short. Over there, many construction sites and factories run with temporary workers. When a big project starts in Munich or Vienna, companies often call staffing agencies the same day. Kollabo became the go-to place for many of those agencies. They log in, post what they need, and good candidates pop up almost right away. It’s not fancy talk; agencies really save hours every single day.
enovetic: Strengthening Its Workforce Management Suite
A Legacy of Innovation
enovetic has been around much longer – since 1981. The company sits in the canton of Zug, Switzerland, and now has about 300 people working in five different countries. For decades they helped staffing companies get rid of paper mess. Before computers were everywhere, temporary work meant mountains of contracts, time sheets, and invoices. enovetic was one of the first to put all that stuff into software so everything could run smoother.
EasyTemp: A Comprehensive SaaS Solution
Their main product is called EasyTemp. Think of it as the big control room for temporary staffing. A staffing agency can create a new job, find workers, make the schedule, track hours, pay people, send invoices to the client, and even handle vacation days or sick leave – all inside the same program. No need to jump between ten different Excel files or paper folders. Many agencies in Switzerland have been using EasyTemp for ten or fifteen years, some even longer. They know it works and they trust it.
On top of that, EasyTemp has extra parts for health insurance questions, pension fund stuff, and absence management. For a medium-size staffing company that sends 200 workers to different sites every week, having everything in one place is a real lifesaver.
The Synergy of Kollabo and enovetic
A Perfect Match
Now the fun part begins. By bringing Kollabo inside the enovetic family, the two tools will start talking to each other. Imagine this real-life situation: a staffing manager opens EasyTemp on Monday morning, sees that a construction company in Berlin needs five welders for three weeks, clicks “find people,” and right there – inside EasyTemp – Kollabo’s matching engine shows the ten best welders who are free and live less than an hour away. The manager picks the ones he wants, sends the contract, and by Tuesday the workers are already on site. That used to take two or three days and a lot of back-and-forth emails.
Mixing Kollabo’s quick AI matching with EasyTemp’s heavy-duty admin tools creates something bigger than each part alone. It’s like giving the old trusted van a brand-new turbo engine. Agencies keep doing what they always did, only much faster and with fewer mistakes.
Kollabo’s Continued Brand Identity
Good news for everyone who already likes Kollabo: the name stays, the app stays, the team stays. Nothing disappears overnight. The only real change is that Kollabo stops doing permanent placements – you know, the classic “we find you a worker for life” deals. From now on they focus 100% on temporary and contract jobs together with staffing agencies. That actually makes a lot of sense. After COVID, many companies prefer to hire people just for a few months instead of taking the risk of a full-time contract. The market moved that way, and Kollabo is moving with it.
Sometimes people ask: “Will prices go up?” Honestly, nobody said anything official yet, but when two companies join forces like this, they usually try to keep customers happy first and figure out money stuff later.
Why This Whole Deal Matters
Temporary staffing is not the sexiest topic, but it keeps construction sites running, factories producing, and hospitals staffed. In Germany alone, more than a million people work through staffing agencies every day. When the old way – phone calls, Excel, maybe a bit of luck – gets replaced by smart software that actually understands who can do the job, everyone wins. Workers get more jobs, agencies make more money without working harder, and the client companies finish their projects on time.
This acquisition is not about making one company richer on paper. It’s about building a tool that removes real headaches for thousands of people who deal with temporary workers every day. And honestly, in a world where everyone complains they can’t find skilled people, having a system that can find the right person in minutes feels almost too good to be true. But now it’s actually happening.
