Work/life balance
Nearly half of all FINMA employees have school-age children and this is how the work/life balance at FINMA works for them.
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Parental leave and returning to work
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Paid maternity leave at FINMA is 16 weeks. This can be extended by at least four weeks with annual leave or unpaid leave. If they wish, female employees can reduce their workload to as low as 40% for 12 months after birth and still keep their position.
Paid paternity leave is four weeks. This may be extended by up to two weeks by unpaid leave.
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Flexible working time models
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Weekly working hours are arranged so as to give a considerable degree of freedom and room for flexibility. Teleworking is possible in most functions, and, when the need arises, employees can organise their work so that they can make optimum use of their time to combine their professional and family duties.
For more information go to: Flexible working arrangements
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Part-time work
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About one-fifth of FINMA employees work part-time. Wherever possible, new jobs are also always offered at a part-time workload of four working days a week (80%). Job-sharing is encouraged where possible.
In most functions, FINMA employees can chose between two different working time models.- The ”FIX” model has set working days over the week and is especially designed for the needs of employees with fixed time commitments and job sharing.
- The “FLEX” model reduces daily target working time and, in combination with the annual working time, is especially suited to employees who appreciate the freedom to have flexible working hours in addition to a part-time workload.
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Support
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FINMA also offers a series of measures to make it easier for employees to balance work and life.
- Our employees have free access to advisory services on caring for children and relatives from profawo.
- Profawo also helps arrange nursery and childcare places, childminders and nannies - this service is free for FINMA employees.
- The FINMA care allowance for children in education is CHF 300 per month.
- Paid leave for unexpected care situations is three days per incident. This applies not only to family members living in the same household. It also covers other relatives such as looking after parents when they need emergency care.
- When life situations become difficult, FINMA employees can talk to an independent and neutral point of contact at no cost.
