High salary of newcomers leads to internal frustration in the workplace.

Equality in the remuneration of members of the same team seems to be an inescapable rule for establishing or restoring a calm working climate. Talent shortages continue to prevail in many sectors. Employers often need to dig deep to convince new staff to choose them. To attract talent, companies increasingly tend to inflate entry salaries, […]

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60% of Swiss professionals suffer from workplace related stress – over half feel employers aren’t doing enough

  62% don’t think employers are doing enough to help combat it 46% of professionals say it is down to line managers to manage workplace stress, followed by senior leaders & HR (29%) 58% of professionals identify their company’s output as high, 29% note that it is low quality Three in five employees have stated […]

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Waiting for ‘the one’ costs Swiss companies between CHF 120K and 150k – claims recruitment firm

Two thirds of hiring managers in Switzerland have admitted to passing up on ‘good quality candidates’ because their company is waiting for ‘the one.’ The ‘unicorn candidate’ – dubbed by specialist recruitment firm Robert Walters – is the phenomenon where employers create an idealistic (and often unrealistic) image of who they would like to hire, […]

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63% of professionals admit to ‘rage-applying’ to new role – amidst peak frustration with employees

Two-thirds of white-collar professionals (63 %) have admitted to ‘rage applying’ to a new job since the beginning of the year – with a toxic workplace culture (56%) being the primary motivating factor. The trend – which saw a spike after the New Year appraisals – occurs when professionals retaliate to a bad day at […]

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How a lack of reactivity from companies can harm their hiring process. Companies with slow hiring processes could lose top Swiss talent.

Research from specialist recruitment company Robert Walters Switzerland highlights that over half of Swiss candidates become deterred from positions by slow hiring processes. 51% of Swiss professionals indicated that they would lose interest in a job opening when the hiring process is longer than four weeks. Charlotte Jacobs, head of the legal recruitment division for […]

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