Modern workplace is all about interuptions.
You should remember that are no real emergency in business…
Advice, Economy, Human Resources, News
How to Keep your Job in Switzerland
Over the past 12 months, unemployment rose over 50%. In 2012 roughly 90,000 will be cut in CH. Here are some tips to keeping your job in Switzerland.
Human Resources, Miscellaneous, News
The Invisible Promotion
There is an increased workload for those who survived cuts and downsizing. This is the world of the ‘invisible promotion,’ where you keep your job but have to do as well a part of your fired colleague’s or dismissed boss’s...
Current Events, Economy, Miscellaneous, News, Procedures
Multinationals Reconsider Switzerland
According to a SwissHoldings survey conducted in 2009 across 80 of the largest multinational groups operating in Switzerland, there is considerable anxiety and uncertainty over the degradation of working conditions and ‘standard of living’ in general. The erosion of banking secrecy is no the only illness affecting the health of the Swiss economy. Switzerland is [...]
Applying for jobs, News
Job Applications – Evolution in the Swiss Marketplace
With the fall in the number of job vacancies in Switzerland and the rise in the number of job seekers, the job application process has become more labyrinthine and delicate. To stand out and succeed in getting an interview and ultimately getting a job offer, much more effort and attention to detail is required. Increased labor supply and decreased demand have resulted in company HR stafff and recruiters becoming much more strict in their requirements.
News, Research and Analysis
Switzerland’s Workforce More Mobile
The Swiss workplace has become considerably more flexible and mobile, according to researchers, who conclude that Swiss workers are traveling more and changing jobs more frequently.
Advice, Social
Why you can’t work at work…
Posted on 02 April 2010
Current Events, Economy, Residency
Rising Immigration Causes Rents to Rise in Geneva
Posted on 13 December 2009
Housing prices across the entire lake leman region, from Geneva to Montreux, are rising eith the influx of foreigners seeking work in the Romandie area. Higher unemployment in neighboring France, Italy, and Germany have resulted in substantial increases immigration of workers seeking jobs in Switzerland. The National Bank of Switzerland (BNS) recently published a study of the trend, linking the wave of immigration to rising property prices and rents. The BNS is one of many government organs or agencies whose federal workers have lifetime employment with indexed salaries.
According to a report by Wuest & Partner, over the past 3 years, rents have risen by more than 10% in Geneva, Lausanne and Zurich. Across all of Switzerland renters appear to have been the most penalized by the trend of rising property prices. In Switzerland only one third of households are property owners.
Geneva, Lausanne, Vevey, Aigle, Zurich and Lugano are among the 10 regions with the strongest rise in the number of resident foreigners. According to the OFS (the federal bureau of statistics) the trend has accentuated steadily over the past 4 years, with 2008 the year with the largest wave of immigration since statistics were collected. The immigrants came mainly from neighboring European countries.
The BNS however refrained from venturing a precise quantitative relation between the flux of new immigrant workers and the extent of the rise in rents. Rather, they limited their conclusions to anodyne observations on the ineluctable relationship between supply and demand.
The Europeans who have moved to Switzerland over the past several years have occasionally chosen to purchase their lodgings, in which case their purchases have influenced the rising prices of small multifamily houses or villas or apartments.
A percentage of the new immigrants do not seek residence in the urban centers but rather in small tax shelter cantons like Schwytz or Zug. There has been a substantial rise in the already high property prices in Zug resulting from the phenomenon of European immigrants seeking fiscally advantageous domiciles. It has forced a substantial number of indigenous residents out of the town because of the rising prices.
According to the BAK in Basel, the property shortfall in the affected areas will result in a drop of roughly 20% in available properties for purchase or rent, causing further rises in property prices and rents.
Economy, Employment Contracts, Insurance
Swiss Labor Market Remains Tense
Posted on 07 December 2009
The Swiss employment market continued to deteriorate in the 3rd quarter with some sectors of the economy struck harder than others. The most jobs were lost in the luxury industries and watch making sector with the unemployment rate skyrocketing nearly 300% in a period of 12 months. Also the number of unemployed increased by roughly 150% over the same 12 month period. Workers in energy and real estate saw the number of their unemployed double over the past year.
