Employee Onboarding, Onboard-Keeping and Offboarding

A challenge currently facing cinfo member organisations is the shortage of experienced Swiss experts and middle managers who are willing and able to work abroad, particularly as such work is often under limited contracts and increasingly fragile. At the same time, the greater availability, flexibility and capacity of national and non-Swiss talent offers organisations the potential for sourcing from a broader labour pool.

With a growing international workforce, new questions arise about how organisations can ensure that their employees effectively represent the values and culture of the organisation. Actors in international cooperation increasingly acknowledge the need for well-developed onboarding, onboarding-keeping and offboarding processes, and literature and good practices are gradually being cited from the private sector.

How do Swiss organisations engage with their employees to ensure that they feel ownership for, and live and promote the values of the organisation when they join, remain or leave? The survey was a collaboration between cinfo and 17 member organisations as well as the Swiss government.