Three quarters of employees record their working hours
Switzerland compares favorably with the European Union when it comes to recording working hours. Overall, almost three quarters of all employees recorded their working hours in 2019. In the EU, this figure was just under half of all employees.
According to the Swiss Federal Statistical Office, a total of 73.9 percent of all employees in Switzerland recorded their working hours in 2019, compared with just 58.1 percent in the European Union (EU). Compared to the EU, however, Switzerland benefits from a high level of labor autonomy. The ratio is 60.4 percent versus 50.6 percent.
More frequent recording of working hours than in Europe
Home working hours, meanwhile, increased significantly in 2020, but were still spread differently depending on the economic sector. In Switzerland, hours worked are recorded more frequently overall than in Europe as a whole. However, the automatic registration of working hours is more than twice as widespread in the EU as in Switzerland (32.8 percent compared with 13.4 percent).In this country, however, three times as many employees as in the EU record their hours manually themselves (53.1 percent compared with 15.8 percent).
Home office distribution in Switzerland
In 2020, home office work was most widespread in the "Information and communication" sector (for example, 82.5 percent in the fourth quarter of 2020), followed by the "Financial intermediation" sector (71.6 percent). In the "Education" and "Professional, scientific and technical services" sectors, more than 50 percent of the workforce also occasionally worked from home on average in 2020.
Source: Federal Statistical Office
