Swiss workers suffer from emotional exhaustion

Swiss workers suffer from emotional exhaustion Keystone-SDA

Swiss workers are increasingly emotionally exhausted after, finding it difficult to switch off, according to the Working Conditions Barometer from the trade union umbrella organisation Travail.Suisse.

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A barometer is carried out every year by Travail.Suisse and the Bern University of Applied Sciences. For the 2025 edition, 1,422 people were questioned throughout Switzerland.

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Four out of ten respondents regularly feel exhausted at the end of the working day. More than a quarter of them say they have to be contactable outside working hours, which makes it even more difficult to recover.

Around a third of those surveyed say they don’t have enough time to rest. A fifth even feel it is almost impossible to reconcile their professional and private lives.

At the same time, 82.6% of those surveyed said they were satisfied with their work – a slight increase on 2024.

Translated from French by DeepL/mga

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