Swiss employees are becoming more stressed, fearful, and unsatisfied with their working conditions, according to an annual survey by one of the country’s biggest trade unions.
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Releasing its yearly barometer on Monday, Travail.Suisse saidExternal link that conditions worsened last year across three main pillars: health, employee motivation, and job security.
According to statistics gathered from surveying its members, some 42.3% of employees are either often or very often stressed – a 2.3 percentage point rise from last year. Meanwhile, 13.2% reported being emotionally exhausted.
“Pressure on employees is growing along with psycho-social stress,” Gabriel Fischer of Travail.Suisse told the Keystone-SDA news agency. He criticised the fact that “politics has not managed to put in place a regular stress monitoring system”.
The trade union also warned in its barometer that – paradoxically – many employees feel as if they have lost control over their working time due to the introduction of flexible working hours, a phenomenon which actually makes it harder to reconcile private and professional life.
Meanwhile, salaries have dropped for two years in a row, said Travail.Suisse, who propose a general rise of 2% for 2020. Today, it found, 12.4% of employees reckon that their income is not adequate, compared to 9.4% three years ago.
And in a context of digital transformation, some 17.4% of employees now also fear for the future of their jobs, a 3.1 percentage point rise. One in three employees also feels neglected by their employer when it comes to training and development options.
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