Flexible working models

Salary Guide 2023

Flexible, hybrid working models have become the new normal over the past two years. Although managers were long reluctant to introduce working from home, the approach is now proving to be a success factor for employee retention and employer attractiveness.

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of Swiss companies will continue to give their employees hybrid working opportunities in the future

Working from home, flexible working hours or hybrid working: new forms of team collaboration have influenced and changed our habits.
New digital tools are helping companies to maintain team cohesion and to manage projects efficiently.
Hybrid working can become a challenge for managers. They need to rethink the way they want to shape teamwork in the future.

Hybrid working – two sides of the same coin

Positive effects of hybrid working:

employee well-being67%
employee motivation56%
attractive for job seekers54%

Negative effects of hybrid working:

corporate culture37%
skills development35%
relationship between employees and/or managers35%

Flexibility – indispensable for employees

Swiss managers agree: offering flexible working models is an important rationale when seeking and retaining employees.
35% of managers say they advertise flexibility and working from home options in job postings.
25% would like to create more opportunities for flexible working or working from home in order to retain employees.

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of companies would like to offer their employees additional days off in the next twelve months

Better work-life balance

Executives care about their employees’ work-life balance. To support them, many companies are embracing hybrid working models.
29% of respondents say that new working models offer parents the flexibility they need for childcare.
25% of managers confirm that employees can choose between working from home and being in the office.

Source

The study was conducted on behalf of Robert Half in June 2022. 150 managers with HR responsibility (general managers, CIOs, CFOs) in small (50–249 employees), medium-sized (250–499 employees) and large (500+ employees) companies in Switzerland were surveyed. The salary information is based on actual agreed salaries from several thousand successful placements. They are average values for Switzerland. The salaries refer to gross annual salaries without perks and benefits. Any male-only designations in this salary guide are for simplification and refer equally to members of all genders (f/m/x); full gender equality is assured.