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 ...
The coronavirus crisis has rocked the staff leasing sector. The number of working hours rendered during the second quarter of the year was around 23 percent lower than the previous year, without taking short-time working hours into account. This is illustrated by the industry barometer that is the Swiss Staffing Index ...
Digitalization, automation and globalization are changing the way we work. In this dynamic labor market, flexible forms of working are constantly on the rise, and workers are discovering they have new needs that had previously not been given much thought. A joint research study by HR ConScience, the University of ...
As a result of the coronavirus crisis, the Swiss Staffingindex shows 12% fewer working hours rendered by temporary workers than during the same month in the previous year – without taking short-time working hours into account. A survey conducted by gfs-zürich shows that on average, nearly half of temporary workers ...
In 2019, temporary workers rendered 4.5% fewer working hours than in the record year that was 2018. This is due to demand in the labor market drying up and the lack of growth momentum in Switzerland's economy. As a result, staff leasing companies are finding it harder to recruit workers and also harder to place these ...
Switzerland's liberal labor market is under pressure. A survey of nearly 700 HR managers conducted by gfs-zürich on behalf of swissstaffing has shown that flexible forms of working, flexible working hours and social partnership are key to the Swiss economy. However, half of the workforce already has misgivings about ...
In the third quarter of 2019, the total number of working hours rendered in the staff leasing sector fell by 5.1% compared with the previous year. The Swiss Staffingindex has recorded a drop of 4.1% since the beginning of the year. This decline in the staff leasing sector is due to a slowdown in the economy as a whole ...
In the second quarter of 2019, the total number of working hours rendered in the staff leasing sector fell by 6.1% compared with the previous year. The Swiss Staffingindex has recorded a drop of 3.8% since the beginning of the year. This decline is due to falling demand for staff in the industrial and construction ...
Flexible Working and Social Protection Are Not Contradictions in Terms Digitalization is fundamentally changing the world of work. Flexible working and employment relationships are becoming increasingly popularand are raising social issues that are being tackled by politics and social partners. The associated ...
According to the Swiss Staffingindex, the staff leasing sector saw a drop in the first quarter of 2019. The number of working hours rendered fell by 1.3% compared with the same quarter in the previous year. This decrease in business activity is due to the fact that Switzerland is at a late stage of its growth cycle: ...
Staff leasing is a controversial subject, and everyone seems to have an opinion about it. Two representative surveys conducted by gfs-zürich on behalf of swissstaffing bring new facts to the debate: one in two temporary workers seeking permanent employment were successful within 24 months of beginning their first ...
2018 was a year of increases and slowdowns for the staff leasing industry. According to the Swiss Staffingindex, 2018 began strongly with a 15.3% increase in working hours rendered, demonstrating how Switzerland's good economic development could be seen early on in the staff leasing sector. As the year went on, ...
The Swiss economic cycle has reached maturity. Recruitment agencies continue to benefit from a good economic environment with an increase of 5.5 percent year-on-year in the third quarter of 2018. However, acquiring new skilled workers on the labor market is becoming ever more difficult and is preventing the sector ...
The Swiss employment market is booming, and this is also affecting Swiss staff leasing companies. Working hours performed by temporary workers rose by 12.9 percent in the first half of the year compared to the same period of the previous year. In the 2nd quarter, growth slowed to 10.5 percent. Job applicants are ...
At the 50th Annual General Meeting of swissstaffing, the members appointed qualified industry expert Leif Agnéus as its new president. The position was previously held by Georg Staub, the former longstanding director of the association, who has now been elected honorary president.The Swiss Association of Recruitment ...
The economic revival is leaving its mark on the Swiss employment market. Thanks to healthy order volumes and stable consumption, companies across all industries are hiring new employees. In the first quarter, this trend can be seen in the rising order volumes of private staff leasing companies. The number of hours ...
In the year 2017, the number of hours worked by temporary workers in Switzerland increased by 5.8 percent to over 175 million. This is not least as a result of the need for flexibilisation in the employment market and overall developments in the economy. This is a positive sign for the industry and the swissstaffing ...
More than 5,000 new jobs were created in Switzerland in 2017 as a result of temporary work. The number of working hours rendered increased by 5.8% compared with the previous year. After two crisis years, the sector is thus sending a positive signal for overall economic development: experience shows that at the ...
In the third quarter of 2017, staff leasing companies were able to fill 4.2 percent more working hours than in the previous year. This is shown by the Swiss Staffingindex, the business barometer of the staff leasing industry. Although growth in the sector slowed somewhat compared to the second quarter, it remained ...
The Swiss economy is recovering. This is great news for the approximately 800 staff leasingcompanies in Switzerland, which recruit temporary staff for large corporations and SMES in all sectors. According to the Swiss Staffingindex, the number of hours worked by temporaryworkers rose by about 6.9% in the second ...