{"id":26508,"date":"2024-04-15T11:21:27","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T09:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.organisator.ch\/?p=26508"},"modified":"2024-05-14T11:45:01","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T09:45:01","slug":"kmu-studie-2024-eine-analyse-der-aktuellsten-zahlen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.organisator.ch\/en\/management\/2024-04-15\/kmu-studie-2024-eine-analyse-der-aktuellsten-zahlen\/","title":{"rendered":"SME Study 2024: An analysis of the latest figures"},"content":{"rendered":"
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99.7 % of companies in Switzerland are classified as SMEs according to the latest provisional figures from the Federal Statistical Office. (Image: www.unsplash.com)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It is not large companies with 250 or more employees that dominate the Swiss corporate landscape, but small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs): according to the latest provisional figures from the Federal Statistical Office, 99.7 % of companies in Switzerland are SMEs. Micro-enterprises with fewer than ten employees are the most common form of SME, accounting for almost 90 % of companies. The two other forms of SMEs, namely small and medium-sized enterprises, together account for only around one in ten companies in Switzerland: 8.4 % of companies are small enterprises with 10 to 49 employees, and only 1.5 % of companies are medium-sized enterprises with 50 to 249 employees (FSO, 2023a).\u00a0<\/p>\n

A look at the employment figures shows that around two thirds of employees in Switzerland - measured in full-time equivalents (FTEs) - work in SMEs. The employees are distributed roughly equally among the different company sizes in SMEs: 22.6 % of employees work in micro-enterprises (< 10 MA), 21.6 % in small enterprises (10 - 49 MA) and 20.9 % in medium-sized enterprises (50 - 249 MA).<\/p>\n

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Micro-enterprises are not equally dominant in all sectors. A comparison of the various sectors reveals the following picture: In the first sector - the agricultural sector - there are mainly micro-enterprises. They make up 98.0 % of the companies. In the third sector - the service sector - micro-enterprises are also very dominant with 90.7 % of companies. And even in the second sector, the industrial sector, they account for 80.6 % of companies.<\/p>\n

The sectors differ greatly in terms of the number of employees: in the first sector, almost all people work in SMEs (99.7 %), and 84.8 % are employed in micro-enterprises. In the second sector, on the other hand, 67.6 % of employees work in SMEs. At 15.8 %, less than a fifth of employees work in micro-enterprises. In the third sector, 62.8 % of employees work in SMEs, which is the lowest percentage compared to the other sectors. However, the share of micro-enterprises is again higher than that of employees in the industrial sector: 22.8 % of employees in the service sector work in micro-enterprises.<\/p>\n

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There are major differences within the cantons in terms of the distribution of employees across sectors. While the canton of Basel-Stadt has an above-average number of employees working in large companies in the industrial and service sectors, the cantons of Appenzell Innerrhoden and Ausserrhoden present a different and very diverse picture: most employees here work in SMEs, and in all sectors.<\/p>\n

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There are also major differences between sectors, especially when comparing the average size of companies and the structure of SMEs within a sector. The size ranges from 1.1 employees in FTE per company in the \"Artistic activities\" sector (musicians, self-employed visual artists, self-employed journalists, etc.) to 282 employees per company in the tobacco processing sector. The following sectors, among others, have a high number of micro-enterprises:<\/p>\n