Temporary agency work in Switzerland

Data collection took part between 01.11.2021 and 31.07.2023

Data collection was focused on temporary agency workers in the French-speaking part of Switzerland. However, we also collected data from temporary agency workers in the German and Italian-speaking parts of Switzerland.

We collected multilingual daily diary data from blue-collar temporary agency workers in Switzerland between 2021 and 2023. The study consisted of two parts. First, participants received a short online questionnaire in which they had to declare their informed consent before providing demographic information. Next, we contacted participants via phone on five consecutive workdays. During the calls, we administered validated questionnaires that focused on participants' daily experiences, with the first call including additional questions on affective job insecurity. We conducted the call by reading the survey questions aloud in the preferred language of the participant.

We found that workplace incivility is positively related to angry and sad mood at the day and person level. While affective job insecurity attenuates the link between day-level workplace incivility and angry mood, it accentuates the link between day level workplace incivility and sad mood. We did not find evidence that affective job insecurity differed between temporary agency workers from Switzerland, EU/EFTA countries, and non-EU/EFTA countries.