White Paper – Temporary workers are in the best position: comparing flexible working models
Flexible work is not an abstract, future phenomenon, but rather it has been a social reality of life. One in four workers, or approximately 1.3 million people, in Switzerland works as a flexworker in a working arrangement that goes beyond the norm of a conventional, unlimited full-time position at a single company.
This white paper acknowledges six flexworkers – their work, their motives and their living situation. Their stories are representative of people in the following flexible forms of work:
- Self-employment without employees
- Concurrent employment
- Part-time work at less than 50%
- On-call work
- Temporary work
They prove that flexworkers contribute significantly to value creation in our country and reduce the specialist and labor shortages. An evaluation of the Swiss Labor Force Survey (SAKE1) illustrates how the different groups of workers are composed. In addition, a legal analysis shows the challenges in social security and how temporary work has solved them.
