As before, one in ten employees has a fixed-term employment contract of less than one year, an employment relationship of less than 20 percent, on-call or temporary employment, the Federal Statistical Office said on Thursday. In 2020, 10.2 percent of workers aged 15-64 (excluding apprentices) were in an atypical job. This is slightly more than in 2019 before Corona (10.0 percent), but slightly less than in 2018 (10.4 percent). Over the past decade, the number has always fluctuated around 10 percent.
Such atypical forms of employment are most common among those under 25, workers in agriculture and forestry, and unskilled workers: about a quarter of those employed there deviate from the so-called “normal employment relationship”. Women are also more common than men in an atypical employment situation (12.5 percent versus 8.0 percent).
Atypical employment relationships are least common among managers, banks, and insurance companies (about 2.5 percent each).
Those under the age of 25 are four times more likely than the average (3.1 percent) to be employed on a short-term contract of less than one year. Short-term employment contracts are rare among those over 40 (about 1.5 percent).
Over the past decade, the proportion of workers with a part-time workload of less than 20 percent has steadily declined: from 2.3 percent in 2020 – almost 3 percent of workers in 2010 had such a low level of employment. The decrease is due to women, as can be seen from the BFS statistics.
30 percent of marginally employed people gave education and training as the reason for working part-time, followed by childcare (20 percent) and other family and personal obligations (17 percent).
According to the FSO, less common causes were “not interested in full-time work” (11 percent), “few part-time jobs” (9 percent), and “full-time jobs not found” (8 percent).
In 2020, 5.1 percent of employees did business on call. Compared to 2010, this value has not changed significantly. Staffing also remained almost unchanged at 1.2 percent of employees.
(SDA)