There are many factors and measures that contribute to achieving a good work-life balance. This is the full 2025 Work-Life Balance Ranking. Comparing developed countries, Surprisingly, Switzerland ranks 21st among the last between developed countries, even with a slight improvement in the index compared to 2024, reaching 60.32. Does this reflect the reality of most workers and meet expectations?
Switzerland is among the last among developed countries in work-life balance in 2025.
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Switzerland still has one of the biggest work week of Western Europe. So what would expect?
You can cross the border to France and suddenly the work week is 35 hours vs 42 hours here, that’s basically one less day of work per week.
Fun fact: 4 out of the bottom 5 are in the top 5 of most innovative countries.
[https://www.wipo.int/en/web/global-innovation-index/2025/index](https://www.wipo.int/en/web/global-innovation-index/2025/index)
Did your other account with which you spammed this website get banned, so you made a new one?
And yet everyone is always surprised when they come here and it’s not honey and milk.
We have less vacation days (20-25days), longer work weeks (42h for regular and 50h for medical), less overtime compensations, less maternity/paternity leave (4months/2 weeks), less holidays (7-14 days) than basically all of our neighbours.
German work like 35h and have 35 days of vacation and 15 holidays. Friday afternoon they are gone, every office is empty.
If you move to a different country, don’t you look these things up? Are people just blindly moving?
None of this is a secret.
All those rankings are based on subjective imaginations of the authors of such ranking what a good life is (and what it isn’t). So the results are worth little.
If the main criteria were the availability of basic services like housing, shopping, kindergarten for double income families, I doubt Switzerland will make it to the upper half…
This ranking was surely created by high income singles…
Most people complain about work–life balance while at the same time enjoying the prosperity that was created through hard work.
Thats the reason why the Swiss are so successful