HR PERSONNEL FORUM
UBS Compensation Survey – Outlook 2025

HR managers continue to be challenged by a multitude of issues in present times. War for talent among companies, inflation leading to challenging demands by employees (and unions), return to work or continued home office, crossborder working continue to be disputed trends in the labor market. In addition, labor hoarding, the extent to which companies keep staff on even when they are underutilized because it is less expensive than “hire & fire”, is a discussion one hears more often. An important current topic for all companies and in particular for HR is how developments in artificial intelligence and social media will influence the employment situation, but also work in HR.
HR is facing many challenges which will be discussed at this year’s HR Personnel Forum. You will learn about the macro-economic background and about the results of the latest edition of the UBS Annual Compensation Survey from
Dr. Daniel Kalt, Chief Economist of UBS Switzerland. You will then hear from proven HR managers about how they manoeuvre their companies through the above challenges. Finally, the panel discussion between the participants, all HR
experts and managers, will bring to light many additional facets of the HR challenges.

1. Dr. Daniel Kalt, Chief Economist Switzerland
2. Gabi Baumgartner, Head of Human Resources IBM Switzerland AG
3. Carolina Granat, Chief Human Resources Officer ABB Ltd.
4. Peter Ziswiler, Head of HR Georg Fischer AG