Swiss employees are with their working conditions less satisfied than in previous years. You want more wages, are more likely to be stressed and are more concerned to their workplace. “Travail.Suisse” calls on the economy and policy of the Act.
most problems have the employees with Stress and mental load: 42.3 percent of the employees feel that their work often or very often stressed, such as the on Monday published a Barometer of “Good work” of the “Travail.Suisse” shows. This represents an increase of 2.3 percentage points compared to the previous year.
in Addition, the work is negative on the emotional state of the workforce. The proportion of those with very frequent emotional exhaustion increased from 11.4 in the previous year to 13.2 percent. 2015, the proportion was 8.3 percent.
“This constant upward trend in these two areas makes us worry,” said Gabriel Fischer, head of economic policy and a “Travail.Suisse”, in front of the media in Bern. The Federation calls on employers and politicians to create a “stress-free working environment”.
“good work” to understand the authors of a “sustainable work”, which protects the health, receives Motivation and a certain degree of security. However, in all three domains, the results are lower than in previous years.
16 of the 20 criteria have been worse rating than in the first survey five years ago – and eleven achieved the since then, the deepest value. “We need at the political level, improvements to continue to work in good conditions”, held a “Travail.Suisse”-President Adrian Wühtrich fixed.
concern for the workplace because digitization
in addition to the Stress about the concern of the workplace has risen, particularly in the course of digitalisation. While 43.3 percent of the respondents estimate the probability as very low that your Job will be replaced in the next ten years through the use of digital technologies. Within a year, this value is fallen by 5.1 points.
a General concern for the workplace in high or very high Mass will make up 17.4 per cent – 3.1 percentage points more than a year ago. 42.2 percent do not have to Worry (43.7 per cent in the previous year).
wage stagnation has left its mark: Thus, 12.4 percent of the respondents believe that their pay is not appropriate. Last year it was 11.6 percent. Adrian Wüthrich attributed to the fact that the employees experienced in the past two years, a real wage loss. He repeated the claim of “Travail.Suisse”, to increase the wage by 2 percent.
work is considered “meaningful” is considered
but The study also shows encouraging results. So in the survey about the Motivation of the employees to remain at high levels have been achieved. “There is a lot of satisfaction, and the work is considered meaningful,” said the fisherman, in summary.
For the compatibility of family and career is a continuous deterioration, however. Almost a quarter of the respondents had “significant” problems with the combination of family and career, and 4.5 percentage points more than in 2015. It was a relatively marked increase in a rather short period of time, said the fisherman. “Travail.Suisse” calls, therefore, on “child care as a Public Service”, as Wüthrich said.
on average, a rating of the quality of the working conditions in the information and communication industry, while the hospitality sector the worst. A view of the region shows that the workforce in Central Switzerland at the most motivated, while primarily employed in the border regions of Ticino and the lake Geneva to your work.
Big differences in training
“Travail.Suisse” has analyzed this year, continuing education and training as a priority. Here, a positive image is shown, according to Gabriel Fischer, in principle. A total of 41.9 percent received of a further education, both financially and in time a full support. A quarter received no or only a low level of support – almost every third has completed in the last year no training.
In the case of support, there are big differences. As a full-time support employees, while part-time employees receive a much lower contribution. This translates to the viewing, according to gender. While two-thirds of the men can have their training as working hours, credit, not, or only partially, this can almost half the women (46.8 percent).
The support on the part of the employer are missing, according to fishermen in the planning area. A large part of the respondents in a staff meeting, the topic of training is not addressed. In addition, only around a quarter of the respondents indicated that they have a staff conversation. “Travail.Suisse” calls from the employers and from the state more efforts and financial resources in the direction of life-long living.
the representative Online survey of around 1400 workers were part of, since the first survey five years ago, 7500 people participated. “Travail.Suisse” evaluated survey, together with the Bern University of applied Sciences.
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Created: 11.11.2019, 14:02 p.m.
