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Employee benefits in Switzerland: Key trends for 2025 and beyond

November 13, 2025

Switzerland’s labour market is undergoing rapid transformation, driven by evolving employee expectations and intensifying competition for talent. The WTW Benefits Trends Survey 2025 reveals how Swiss employers are adjusting their benefits strategies to address these shifts while managing rising cost pressures.

This article summarises the key findings and outlines how organisations can design benefits strategies that are both cost-efficient and aligned with employee values.

The direction is clear: Swiss employers are steadily moving toward more personalised and flexible benefit strategies that balance choice, cost, and simplicity.

With 54% of Swiss companies planning to review and optimise their benefits budgets, the focus is shifting from offering more benefits to offering the right benefits.

Conclusion

As Switzerland’s job market continues to evolve, employers must rethink how benefits support talent attraction, retention, and engagement.

By embracing personalisation, wellbeing, data analytics, and values-driven design, organisations can build benefits strategies that are sustainable, inclusive, and aligned with what today’s employees value most.

Ultimately, success will come not from offering more benefits, but from offering better ones—those that truly make a difference to people and to the business.

Contacts

Headshot of Reto Ebnöther

Reto Ebnöther

Head of Health & Benefits Switzerland

Michael Dean, Director – Health & Benefits Switzerland

Michael Dean

Director – Health & Benefits Switzerland

Survey Report

Recalibrating employee benefits: How companies are delivering value in a cost-constrained world