Wellbeing at work

13 April 2023

No, Gen Z is Not Upending Professional Practices

Today, the professional world has become a melting pot of generations, each different from the next. Generations X, Y and Z working together is challenging for HR managers, as they must demonstrate extreme managerial agility. Even […]

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2 March 2023

Flexibility: The Next Employee Benefit

Today’s consumers value choice and personalisation of products. We customise our cars or clothes, configure our smartphones and select our TV shows à la carte. Choice has become a deciding factor for customers. This all-encompassing flexibility […]

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19 January 2023

How to Strengthen Your Corporate Culture in 2023

Corporate culture, also called organisational culture, reflects your company’s values. It is visible in all parts of the company, from management principles and relationships with employees to goals and strategies. Although often overlooked by employees, corporate […]

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14 December 2022

Employee Retention: 5 Points to Watch

For an employer, employee retention is the holy grail that keeps things running smoothly. Keeping employees loyal and avoiding turnover is no small task, however. Loyalty depends on a multitude of factors that are not always […]

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19 October 2022

Rewards and Benefits: Increase Employee Productivity

Now more than ever, all work deserves proper compensation. All employers should adopt this motto for their employees. Don’t overlook your benefits programme for boosting employee engagement and retention. Between increased productivity and job satisfaction, everyone […]

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22 September 2022

How Does Lack of Employee Motivation Impact Your Company?

A perfect employee can be summarised in three words: motivation, performance and enthusiasm. This trio of traits covers everything that has to do with employee engagement in a company. The problem is that an engaged employee […]

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2 August 2022

What Exactly is Employee Engagement?

Employee engagement is a concept that emerged in the 1990s and has continued to evolve. It has become an essential part of HR strategy and includes other key concepts such as employee motivation, investment and satisfaction. […]

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21 June 2022

How Can You Build an Attractive Benefits Progamme?

A good salary is nice, but additional benefits are the cherry on top. These non-monetary extras are in-kind benefits that the employer provides for their employees. They can be extremely profitable for a company, as long […]

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28 April 2022

Well-Being Strategies: The Key to a Productive Team

Strategies for well-being at work have an effect on employee commitment and motivation. They also contribute to the financial health of companies and instilling healthy relationships between colleagues. HR departments should design an efficient action plan […]

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1 February 2022

The Power of Thank You at Your Company

Employers often forget how powerful saying thank you can be in transforming their companies. A pre-planned, uptight thank you means nothing to your employees and doesn’t count, of course. A sincere, spontaneous, detailed thank you that […]

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5 January 2022

5 HR Priorities for 2022

The Covid-19 pandemic created an unprecedented crisis that turned our most firmly instilled professional practices upside-down. Companies had to overhaul how they function without any preparation. Amidst this major upheaval, HR managers were called up to […]

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9 November 2021

Help Your Employees Manage Their Financial Well-Being

The pandemic destabilised companies’ finances the world over and with it, employees’ financial well-being. According to the International Labour Organization (ILO), Swiss employees’ income dropped 3.7%. This is mainly due to furlough, which removed the base […]

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21 October 2021

The Lunch Card in the Times of Coronavirus and Working from Home

Working from home has become exceedingly popular since the coronavirus. According to a study conducted with companies world-wide by Garner, a research and advisory company, 90% of HR Directors plan to continue work from home after […]

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23 September 2021

5 Tips for Motivating Your Employees at the End of the Year

Everything we thought we knew about job security has been shattered in 2020 and 2021. We had to change how we work with the pandemic, leaving many employees feeling lost. The home office overturned their working […]

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5 August 2021

Recognition and rewards to boost employee performance

For your company, rallying the troops is the machine that drives the war. And to keep them invested on the long term, you have a foolproof secret weapon: recognition. When based on a rewards system that […]

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8 July 2021

7 Effective Team Incentive Strategies

After many long months being forced to work from home due to Covid-19, companies are progressively returning to normal and employees are heading back to work at the office. Of course, re-motivating teams is a priority […]

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14 May 2021

Certain Food Can Make Your Employees Happier: Act Now!

A healthy, nutritious diet rich in vitamins boosts mental and physical energy. It can even make your employees happy all day long! Junk food, which stares at them from every street corner, inviting them in for […]

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22 April 2021

More purchasing power for your employees – without increasing your HR costs

The Swibeco Lunch Card offers new flexibilities for all companies in Switzerland. The solution has been completely redefined to offer your employees a purchasing power equivalent of a significant salary increase without raising your personnel costs. […]

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29 March 2021

Our top 10 innovative benefits for employees

With the shortage in talents, it is more important than ever to pamper your employees. And you won’t keep them satisfied with a few extras once in a while on top of their base salary. Today, […]

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27 January 2021

Are Your Employees the Best Brand Ambassadors?

Your company’s brand image depends mainly on client satisfaction. However, we often forget how important employees are in creating and reinforcing the employer brand. They can become an excellent tool for building your reputation with a […]

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3 December 2020

Is A Salary Still Enough to Keep Employees Happy?

Base salary on its own is not enough to make Swiss employees happy, as we are now seeing at many companies. A good salary is no longer seen as a good enough reason to feel happy […]

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4 November 2020

How to Keep Your Employees Engaged with Work Certificates

Preparing work certificates, which are essential documents for your employees, is often seen as a purely administrative and time-consuming task. Although it is a legal obligation (certificates have been required by the Swiss Labour Code since […]

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15 October 2020

New Work: How to Update Your Workplace

Everyone is talking about New Work. The goal is to innovate as much as possible in the professional world, adapting it to the latest trends in globalisation and technology. This work world 4.0 is flexible, highly […]

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16 September 2020

How Managing Rewards Well Can Transform Your Company

The salary is not the only thing that counts for a company’s employees. The other benefits that the company provides are also an important factor for motivation and commitment to their employer. From financial rewards to […]

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20 August 2020

Create a Mental Health-Friendly Work Environment

Authorities say that mental health is the biggest challenge of the 21st century. As the professional environment changes, companies have realised that their employees’ productivity depends primarily on their mood and motivation. Many employers are working […]

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25 June 2020

Should Companies Consider a Four-Day Week?

The work week is a controversial subject. Many employers still judge performance based on the number of hours their employees work, confusing presence with efficiency. On the other hand, some are ready to break away from […]

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27 May 2020

7 Ways to Better Engage Your Employees

A company’s success depends primarily on how engaged its employees are. The more they invest, the better the company’s productivity and the lower the turnover risk. But employers need to cultivate employee motivation on a daily […]

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30 April 2020

Top Strategies for Talent Management

Talent management is an important part of company strategy. The job market and employer-employee relationships have been continuously changing over the past several years, and talent management practices with them. What are today’s most effective talent […]

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1 April 2020

Become the Company Everyone Wants to Work For

Employees’ expectations of their employers have changed a lot in recent years and are much more varied than they used to be. Working is no longer simply about being paid. It is a way to achieve […]

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21 February 2020

Do You Offer Your Employees These 10 Salary Extras?

You need motivated employees to have a productive company. Although financial bonuses are always popular, non-monetary rewards can also keep your employees motivated by responding more specifically to their needs. But which benefits should you choose […]

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23 January 2020

4 Reasons to Make Training Your Employees a Top Priority in 2020

A company’s strength lies in its ability to continuously rely on qualified employees. Although employers often focus on recruitment and employee benefits to find talents, they forget to invest in developing employee skill sets throughout their […]

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20 December 2019

10 New Year’s Resolutions for Your HR Department in 2020

As the end of the year approaches, it is high time to set your goals for 2020. HR departments need to stay one step ahead of the changing job market to remain effective. But what resolutions […]

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3 December 2019

Do You Want to Keep Your Best Employees? Act Now!

Motivation of employees – A company without good employees is like a car engine whose cylinders aren’t powerful enough for the car to run at top speed. The competition passes it by as it fades into […]

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18 November 2019

How can you fight employee burnout?

Burnout – Although the WHO doesn’t consider it to be a work-related health problem, burnout is an affliction that affects all companies. It is caused by the ever-increasing demands to perform, be present and be versatile […]

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30 October 2019

10 Ways to Reach Generation Z

Generation Z – There is a wealth of talent in Generation Z for employers. Born between 1995 and 2010, these digital natives are strongly attracted to new technology and have a very specific conception of professional […]

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22 May 2017

Motivation at work: what lessons can be drawn from the Gallup 2017 study?

Employee performance is undoubtedly linked to motivation levels at work. This has been proven by the recent State of American Workplace survey, which was published by work experts at Gallup in February 2017. The trends that […]

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8 May 2017

Which Swiss companies offer the best quality of life in the workplace?

On May 4, the new Great Place To Work® “Best Workplaces in Switzerland” 2017 ranking was announced. This year, the consulting firm interviewed approximately 15,000 employees from 123 Swiss companies to complete its ranking. Allof the […]

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21 March 2017

Employee engagement: don’t forget your most important customers

Employee engagement is a major challenge in modern businesses. You may have heard business and human resources (HR) managers talking about employees being a company’s greatest asset. There is a wealth of evidence to suggest that this […]

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16 February 2017

Talent Management: why is it essential?

Talent Management has enjoyed considerable success in recent years. For the past decade, the relationship between human resources and employees has been shifting. The resource has become a talent. The emphasis is no longer necessarily on […]

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18 November 2016

How can you satisfy employees with a Christmas gift?

It’s just a mere few weeks until Christmas ! The main question that HR leaders and managers ask themselves is: What’s the best way to reward employees? There are some essential aspects to think about when considering […]

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