Press Release – Swiss Arbeitgeber Award 2015
Occasion: Presentation of the Swiss Arbeitgeber Award 2015
Thursday, 17 September 2015, 6:30 pm, Hotel Marriott Zurich Organiser: icommit GmbH, Poststrasse 35, 8700 Küsnacht
www.icommit.ch/www.swissarbeitgeberaward.ch - - -
Contact
Sven Bühler; Managing Director, icommit GmbH; mobile 079 410 99 55, phone 043 266 88 70 Rahel Gugerli; Project Assistant; tel. 043 266 88 79
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Contents
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The best employers honoured
Zurich, 17 September 2015.
The Swiss Arbeitgeber Award was presented for the 15th time to the best employers at a ceremony held in Zurich last night. The winners in the four categories come from completely different sectors, showing that em-ployee satisfaction and commitment do not depend on the type of work and the professional group.
And the judges were those who know best: the employees. 27,252 employees from 118 companies rated their own employers in Switzerland's largest employee survey. They answered 55 questions covering the core aspects of their working lives and rated their job content, structures and procedures, collaboration within the company, dealing with changes, management leadership, employee development, and remuneration systems to name just a few.
The people deciding on the winners of the Swiss Arbeitgeber Award 2015 are laundry workers, engineers, techni-cians, and scientists. The employees at the winning companies in the small, medium and large business categories have one thing in common – they feel that, despite varying job content and working conditions, they are support-ed by their employers, as their responses to the survey for the Swiss Arbeitgeber Award 2015 reveal. This moti-vates them to show commitment and perform their best for their employers on a daily basis, demonstrating that skilful leadership, whether in a laundry or in a large pharmaceutical company, makes for committed and satisfied employees.
Winners of the Swiss Arbeitgeber Award 2015
Categories
Large businesses Medium businesses Small businesses
1,000+ employees 250-999 employees 100-249 employees 50-99 employees
CSL Behring AG Biopharmaceuticals company Bern Soudronic AG Manufacturer of production equipment for metal pack-aging
Bergdietikon/AG
Wäscherei Bodensee AG
Laundry and textile logistics specialist
Münsterlingen/TG
Hunziker Partner AG
Building services engineering Winterthur
What makes the best so different
The winners differ from other companies in three aspects. First, the best employers respond rapidly to changes forced on them by the market or by new technologies, and they accompany their employees as best they can through these often challenging processes. Second, management teams are given top marks by their staff be-cause they provide information quickly, openly and at frequent intervals, maintain close contact to their employ-ees and exemplify shared values in their actions and are, therefore, perceived to be a homogeneous unit. Third, pay is regarded as appropriate compared to other employees, commensurate with employees' performance and commitment.
What employees think
Employees in the winning companies are committed and satisfied, regard their jobs as attractive and recommend their employers to others. However, the survey also shows that there are great differences between sectors when it comes to the criteria of commitment, overall satisfaction and attractiveness of the employer. Completely differ-ent sectors achieved top ratings in these fields.
Commitment 1) Construction/real estate 2) Trade 3) Industry Overall satisfaction 1) Administration/school/NPO 2) Hotel 3) Trade
Attractiveness of the employer
1) Information technology 2) Hotel
3) Construction/real estate
The Swiss Arbeitgeber Award
A noticeably greater number of companies from the services, energy, pharmaceuticals/medical engineering and transportation sectors submitted entries for the Swiss Arbeitgeber Award 2015 than the previous year. In con-trast, the number of participants from industry and retail in particular decreased. Most companies (38%) partici-pate in the employee survey every two years. Those companies taking part receive detailed analyses that provide them with valuable information and support for their organisation and staff management.
Supporters
The Swiss Arbeitgeber Award benchmarking study has become a seminal instrument for Swiss businesses. It is supported by the Schweizerischer Arbeitgeberverband (Swiss Employer's Association), HR Swiss (Swiss Association for Human Resources Management), the business magazine “BILANZ” and the institute icommit based in
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Swiss Arbeitgeber Award 2015
The best employers honoured
Zurich, 17 September 2015.
The Swiss Arbeitgeber Award was presented for the 15th time to the best employers in Zurich last night. The prizes in the four categories went to companies from completely different sectors. The people deciding on the winners of the Swiss Arbeitgeber Award 2015 are laundry workers, engineers, technicians, and scientists. 27,252 employees answered 55 questions covering the core aspects of their working lives, their satisfaction with work and their commitment. 118 businesses took part in this year's survey, facing the verdict of their employees.
Winners of the Swiss Arbeitgeber Award 2015 – Category: 1,000+ employees
CLS Behring AG, biopharmaceuticals company, Bern – Category: 250-999 employees
Soudronic AG, manufacturer of production equipment for metal packaging, Bergdietikon/AG – Category: 100-249 employees
Wäscherei Bodensee AG, laundry and textile logistics specialist, Münsterlingen/TG – Category: 55-99 employees
Hunziker Partner AG, building services engineering, Winterthur
The benchmarking study on which the Swiss Arbeitgeber Award is based has become a seminal instrument for Swiss businesses. It helps employers to determine their attractiveness for their employees and to align their em-ployee policy accordingly.
Swiss Arbeitgeber Award 2015 Rankings
Category: 1,000+ employees
Place Company Sector Location
1 CSL Behring AG Pharmaceuticals/medical engineering Bern
2 Luzerner Kantonalbank AG Services Lucerne
3 Debrunner Koenig Gruppe Trade St. Gallen
Category: 250-999 employees
Place Company Sector Location
1 Soudronic AG Industry Bergdietikon/AG
2 CARDIOCENTRO TICINO Hospital Lugano
3 P. Sonderegger AG Construction/real estate Wangen near Olten
4 zeka zentren körperbehinderte aargau Social institution Aarau
5 Electrolux AG Trade Zurich
6 Pistor AG Trade Rothenburg
7 Kambly SA, Spécialités de Biscuits Suisses Industry Trubschachen
8 Schweizer Reisekasse (Reka) Genossenschaft Services Bern
9 BancaStato Services Bellinzona
10 Heime Kriens Nursing home Kriens
11 Centre professionnel du Littoral neuchâtelois
(CPLN) Administration/school/NPO Neuchâtel
12 Eberhard Unternehmungen Construction/real estate Kloten
13 VEBO Genossenschaft Social institution Oensingen
14 OBT AG Services St. Gallen
15 IVF HARTMANN AG Pharmaceuticals/medical engineering Neuhausen at Rheinfall
Category: 100-249 employees
Place Company Sector Location
1 Wäscherei Bodensee AG Services Münsterlingen/TG
2 Ergon Informatik AG Information technology Zurich
3 Hotel Hof Weissbad AG Hotel Weissbad
4 Seniorenzentrum Naters Nursing home Naters
5 Halter AG Construction/real estate Zurich
6 Energie Thun AG Energy Thun
7 Zermatt Bergbahnen AG Transportation Zermatt
8 ARGO Stiftung für Integration von Menschen
mit Behinderung in Graubünden Social institution Chur
9 Gossweiler Ingenieure AG Architecture/engineering Dübendorf
10 HERZOG Küchen AG Construction/real estate Unterhörstetten
11 Ernst Meier AG Retail trade/sales Dürnten
12 3-Plan Haustechnik AG Architecture/engineering Winterthur
13 RIGI BAHNEN AG Transportation Vitznau
14 Liechtensteinische Kraftwerke Energy Schaan
15 Accarda AG Services Brüttisellen
Category: 50-99 employees
Place Company Sector Location
1 Hunziker Partner AG Construction/real estate Winterthur
2 inova:solutions AG Information technology Ostermundigen
3 Olma Messen St.Gallen Services St. Gallen
4 BE Netz AG Energy Ebikon
5 Dold AG Industry Wallisellen
6 Interhome AG Services Glattbrugg
Swiss Arbeitgeber Award Facts & Figures
Occurrence
The Swiss Arbeitgeber Award is being presented for the 15th time in 2015.
Figures relating to the survey Participation
Participant companies 118
Number of questionnaires evaluated 27,252
Response rate 76% Survey method – electronic – written 53% 47% Categories
Large businesses 1,000 and more employees
Medium businesses 1 250-999 employees
Medium businesses 2 100-249 employees
Small businesses 50-99 employees
Company participation frequency
Annual 29%
Every two years 38%
Every three years 26%
The questionnaire
Employees were asked to assess the general organisational conditions based on 42 questions: – Job content
– Work and leisure
– Structures and procedures – Workplace/tools
– Collaboration within the company – Dealing with changes
– Customer orientation
– Familiarisation with the corporate strategy – Involvement of employees
– Leadership skills of line managers – Behaviour of executive management – Employee development
– Objective agreement – Remuneration
– Knowledge management – Teamwork
13 questions describe their personal attitude towards their employer: – Commitment
– Satisfaction – Resignation
– Attractiveness of the employer – Employer recommendation
Survey conducted by: icommit – Established: 2005
– Location: Küsnacht ZH
– Specialists in employee surveys and management feedback
– Survey concept, execution, analysis and consulting from a single source – Performance of over 150 employee surveys each year
– Strongest growth in the last two years in the healthcare sector
icommit is an initiator and the institute responsible for conducting the Swiss Arbeitgeber Award – Switzerland's largest and most comprehensive employee survey. The Swiss Arbeitgeber Award is supported by our partners Schweizerischer Arbeitgeberverband (Swiss Employer's Association), HR Swiss (Swiss Association for Human Re-sources Management) and media partner “BILANZ”.
