Tobias Kern
Founder of Workacross. He runs the editorial check on every guide before it is published.
What the editorial check involves
Every Workacross guide is drafted with AI assistance from a set of named primary sources — federal and cantonal authorities, the France–Switzerland agreements, and the published premium and rate tables. A draft is not a publication. Before anything goes live, each factual claim is read back against the authority it cites, and the date that source was last opened is recorded on the guide.
That check is what the byline on a guide records. It means a named person opened the sources, matched them to the sentences, and accepted responsibility for publishing the result. It does not mean a qualified professional has reviewed the content — and where a guide would benefit from that, the guide says so instead of implying it.
Why no professional reviewer is named yet
The guide model has a separate field for an external professional who has checked the claims, and it is empty on every guide today. Filling it with an internal role would be the easiest possible way to look more authoritative and the fastest way to deserve less trust, so it stays empty until a qualified person has actually done the work.
When that changes, a reviewer's name and their qualification will appear on the guides they checked, dated, and nowhere else.
Corrections
If a guide is out of date, or a step does not match what an authority asked you for, that is worth knowing about. Corrections are recorded on the guide itself with the date they were made, rather than edited away silently.
Guides checked by Tobias
Every guide below carries his byline and the date the sources were last confirmed.
- Your first Swiss payslip explained
- Cross-border telework: tax and social security are two different tests
- How to evaluate a Swiss job offer when you live in France
- Where your Swiss salary is taxed when you live in France
- Starting a Swiss job while living in France: your first 30 days
- How your Swiss salary reaches your euro account
- Build your cross-border paperwork file
- The G permit, explained
- Choose your health-insurance route as a France resident
- Registering as a cross-border worker in Basel