Labor market Record number of home office jobs - Switzerland defies counter-trend
More and more employers in Switzerland are offering home offices. In doing so, they are moving in a different direction to their competitors abroad.
08.08.2025, 09:25
SDA
The number of home office jobs on offer in Switzerland reached a new high in the second quarter of 2025, according to an analysis by the job platform Indeed. Specifically, the proportion of such jobs at the end of the first half of the year was a good 14%.
"This means that the supply of flexible jobs has more than quintupled since before the pandemic", according to the report published on Friday. Switzerland is thus consolidating its position as a location for flexible work in Europe.
In many Western countries, companies are currently calling their employees back to the office. Higher efficiency is often cited as the reason.
Switzerland in 3rd place
With a relatively high proportion of location-independent working of 14%, Switzerland is only just behind the United Kingdom and Germany in comparison with the largest Western economies. Canada is in the same range as Switzerland, followed by France and the USA.
"If companies succeed in continuing along this path, Switzerland can establish itself as the leading location for flexible working models in Europe in the long term," comments Virginia Sondergeld, labor market expert at Indeed, on the report.
Over 610 million people from more than 60 countries are registered on the Indeed job site to search for new jobs.
