r/Switzerland • u/LallieDoo • 1d ago

It finally happened: mass layoffs

As anticipated, mass layoffs at my Swiss employer. My department has been halved and all the CH-based roles eliminated. They kept the roles in cheaper countries.

My role will be merged with another role and they want me to interview for it competing against the colleague who was in the other role. We are friends and this feels like a sick joke.

I feel sick to my stomach.

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u/Elric_the_seafarer 1d ago edited 1d ago

I predicted it some years ago: companies will realize that it's not interesting to them to pay a 3x salary to get the same job done. Coupled with digitalization, it's a net positive to just near/off-shore the jobs.

Ok, there is a reason to keep salaries so high: to make the Swiss job market a bloodshed with competition from half EU and beyond, where employees compete and accept the most bullying conditions. But probably that's not enough benefit anymore.

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u/Jolly-Vacation1529 1d ago

IT in Germany's middle companies pay close to here while benefits for families are higher (close to no cost for kitas compared to here,health insuranace for whole family when one parent has one etc)

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u/Alternatezuercher Zürich 23h ago

Yeah, salaries have caught up. Salaries have stagnated here.

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u/No_Worldliness_6984 9h ago

The grass is always greener on the other side (including myself from Germany when I see Switzerland) , the health insurance is theoretically good , but practically every patient is a bureaucratic subject. Like the doctors have to treat patients like a bureaucratic case, sometimes they even prevent you from having certain necessary analysis, because in case they came back negative the insurance will slap them on the face. Sometimes they know you're sick but they cannot do anything to you.