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  • Swiss Staffingindex: a mixed year for staff leasing companies

    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. ...

  • Staff leasing market down just under 8 percent

    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 ...

  • Labor shortage impacts staffing service providers

    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 ...

  • Waiting for a Downturn in the Staffing Services Sector

    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 ...

  • Weakening Economic Climate Impacts Staffing Service Providers

    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 ...

  • Staffing service providers on growth trajectory in the first quarter of 2022

    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 ...

  • Staff leasing sector recovers from impact of coronavirus in 2021

    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 ...

  • Flexwork: more and more highly qualified workers are in temporary work

    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 ...

  • More Than Equivalent: New Analysis of Wages and Overtime in Temporary Work

    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 ...

  • Second lockdown causes strain, but optimism for the summer

    In the first quarter of 2021, temporary workers rendered 12.8% fewer working hours than in the same quarter in the previous year. As a result, the second lockdown knocked the staff leasing sector back into double-digit minus figures. This decline affected both the service and industrial sectors due to falling demand. ...

  • Coronavirus Summary 2020: Staff Leasing Sector Slumps 14.3%

    The staff leasing sector slumped 14.3% in 2020 as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. After recording a drop of 22.8% during the first lockdown, the sector's deficit steadily reduced throughout the year to 9.6% in the fourth quarter, an impressive feat shown by the Swiss Staffingindex. The slight upward trend seen ...

  • A Second Wave of Coronavirus Threatens the Swiss Labor Market

    The staff leasing sector serves as a gauge for the Swiss economy as a whole. In the third quarter of 2020, the Swiss Staffingindex was down 16.7% on the previous year. This meant that the benchmark index for the sector only rose very slightly compared with the second quarter. Despite some easing of restrictions, the ...