Leif Agnéus is stepping down as President of swissstaffing in June 2024. Over the past six years in this role, he has further developed and promoted the Association of Swiss Recruitment Agencies with lasting effect. His successor Andreas Eichenberger was unanimously appointed as the new President of swissstaffing on ...
A new study takes the pulse of the working-age population. It shows that workers would like more flexibility to organize their work and to work less. When it comes to flexible working hours, there is a discrepancy between desire and reality in the Swiss population. Many workers would also like to reduce their working ...
The economic slowdown has reached the labor market. There is still a skills shortage. Combined, these two market trends have caused the temporary and permanent employment markets to shrink. The slowing economy is forcing staffing service providers to begin the year in the red: in the first quarter of 2024, the staff ...
The labour shortage in 2023 caused the temporary staffing sector to shrink and the permanent staffing sector to grow. Despite a noticeable slowdown in the economy, signals for the future remain mixed in the fourth quarter. The labour shortage had a major impact on staff leasing companies' business development in 2023. ...
Press Release by the Social Partners of the CBA on Staff Leasing After some intensive negotiations, the social partners have agreed on a new collective bargaining agreement on staff leasing for the next four years. It brings with it a higher minimum wage (+3.2% in 2024) with automatic inflation compensation for the ...
A slowing economy and a labor shortage are having a negative impact on the temporary staffing market. Permanent position placements are still on the rise. Staffing service providers concluded the third quarter of 2023 with a 7.6 percent decrease in temporary staffing compared to the previous year, according to the ...
Unfortunately, there are currently some fraudulent WhatsApp messages and telephone scams circulating that are pretending to offer job placements on behalf of swissstaffing. These phishing messages and calls are using the name swissstaffing as the supposed sender or are claiming to come from one of our members of staff ...
Despite dire warnings that the Swiss economy could weaken, the labor market is robust, which is paradoxically shown by red figures in the staffing service sector. Staffing service providers concluded the second quarter of 2023 with a 5.6 percent decrease in temporary staffing compared to the previous year. The revenue ...
A new study shows that temporary work is simultaneously both a safety net and a lifeline for many workers. It provides both highly skilled and low-skilled workers an opportunity to determine their own careers. For many jobseekers, temporary work is a pathway to a permanent job. Approximately one third use temporary ...
Despite a bleak economic outlook, the acute labor shortage is causing concern for many companies and giving job seekers greater bargaining power. According to the Swiss Staffingindex, the temporary staffing sector via staffing service providers is in minus figures (-3.4 percent) for the first time in two years. The ...
Labor shortage, omicron, supply bottlenecks and inflation – the annual figures from staffing service providers illustrate the roller coaster ride that was 2022. Staffing service providers concluded 2022 with an increase of 7.2 percent year-on-year in the temporary sector. The number of permanent position placements ...
Staff shortages and economic concerns bear unusual fruit in the employment market: Businesses and workers alike are speaking plainly with staffing service providers. Despite the ominous clouds on the economic horizon, the latest Swiss Staffingindex shows that staffing service providers are performing surprisingly ...
Labor shortages and gloomy export prospects are leading to fears of stagflation – initial signs of a slowdown apparent in the growth region of Basel. If you look at the latest quarterly figures for staffing service providers in Switzerland, everything could appear rosy: according to the Swiss Staffingindex, the ...
Study shows that 26% of workers were in flexible working models in 2020 – well-educated women are overrepresented in the service sector. Many imagine young men working for an hourly wage on a construction site when they hear about flexible work or temporary work in Switzerland. A new study by swissstaffing, the ...
Staff shortages due to Covid cases and the Ukraine war have been successfully overcome by appointing temporary workers or new permanent staff. Staffing service providers saw a clear upswing into 2022: According to the Swiss Staffingindex, the staff leasing sector was up 21.9 percent over the previous year based on ...
According to the Swiss Staffingindex industry barometer, the staff leasing sector ended 2021 up 11.6 percent. The need for staff in vaccination centers, testing centers and hospitals has seen the sector revert to a path of growth, as has the business situation in industry and construction, where temporary positions ...
Contrary to widespread opinion, temporary work is also an attractive way of working for highly qualified workers. Globalization, advancing digitalization and – in more recent times – the coronavirus pandemic have accelerated demand for flexible working relationships, even for highly qualified specialists. Flexwork ...
The staff leasing sector continues to grow. According to the Swiss Staffingindex, workers in the staff leasing sector recorded 12.9 percent more working hours during the third quarter of 2021 in a year-on-year comparison. The good business situation seen in the staff leasing sector suggests that there will be further ...
The staff leasing sector saw a rapid recovery in the second quarter of 2021. According to the Swiss Staffingindex, workers in the staff leasing sector recorded a notable 24.5 percent more working hours this quarter in a year-on-year comparison. This has allowed the sector to recover a large part of the ...
Temporary workers earn the same as their directly employed colleagues – and even significantly more than direct employees on a limited contract – and work less overtime, but are more likely to be financially compensated for it. These are the results of swissstaffing's first ever analysis of the figures from the ...