ON THE PULSE OF SWISS ECONOMY

Based on the competence of leading heads of the Swiss business community.

7th Swiss Business Pulse Edition – Q1 2022

Development of the demand situation

61% expect customer demand to improve over the next 12 months.

This is once again and increase compared with the last quarted. The financial services sector in particular is very optimistic.

The target markets of Asia and North America now have the worst expectations, but there is great optimism for the target markets of Europe and Switzerland, with an improvement of up to 69%.

FRAMEWORK AGREEMENT WITH THE EU

The decision of the Federal Council is supported and rejected by the same amount of people.

The majority think that it will have no short-term impact on the company.

In the long-term however, up to 49% see a negative impact on the company.

CURRENT CHALLENGES

Coping with the Corona crisis remains the biggest challenge, but this has been steadily decreasing since last October.

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On the other hand, the increasing shortage of skilled workers is a growing problem.
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But now, at 9%, a completely new challenge is the procurement of materials, as deliveries have been delayed by months due to COVID-10.

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