White Paper – More than equivalent: wages and overtime in temporary work
Our analysis of the Swiss Labor Force Survey indicates that the temporary staffing sector provides greater flexibility and social safeguards for agency workers than direct employees typically enjoy:
- Agency workers earn the same wages as their directly employed colleagues. Agency workers even earn more than direct employees with a limited (term) contract
- Agency workers work less overtime and are more often paid in cash for their work
- The large share of agency workers in intermediate employment relationships highlights an important function of the staffing industry for the labor market.
In our digital and fast-changing world, flexibility is not a hazard, but an opportunity, and temporary work offers a fair and secure framework for this.
