Working at UBS

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We're recognized as a great place to work, whatever the business area, role or life stage. We aim to be a responsible and supportive employer, helping everyone thrive while balancing work and personal responsibilities in ways that work for them. Here’s a glimpse of what it’s like to work here.

Kudos

We care about our employees, and we’re committed to supporting them. Spanning social, physical, mental and financial well-being, our comprehensive health and well-being offering includes a wide range of programs, benefits, awareness sessions, eLearnings, toolkits, and workplace resources. All are designed to help our employees manage their health, foster well-being and promote the organization’s sustainability. Over the past year, we’ve continued to help employees and line managers adapt to changes related to the integration of Credit Suisse, including offering instructor-led sessions on resilience and on managing organizational change and uncertainty.

To promote physical and mental health, we sponsor initiatives like virtual and local fitness challenges and provide mental health support that includes an employee assistance program and free access to a specialized mindfulness app. We sponsor regular educational events to engage and inform employees about various financial topics. We are a founding partner of #WorkingWithCancer to better support employees affected by cancer and promote prevention. We also help employees positively impact their communities by matching charitable donations and offering paid leave to volunteer in community and environmental initiatives.

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Fast fact

Our UBS Career Comeback program supports talented individuals returning from a longer career break or career shift. Introduced in 2016 and offered globally since 2019, Career Comeback has helped 260 participants (233 women and 27 men) return to corporate jobs since inception.

UBS Career Comeback

We know that good work / life balance is pivotal to our employees’ overall wellbeing and to their job satisfaction. That’s why we support our employees throughout the employee lifecycle and offer benefits that often go beyond what’s legally required.

We support flexible working arrangements (e.g., part-time, job-sharing and partial-retirement roles). In all locations, comprehensive employee assistance programs help employees manage issues like stress, illness, personal conflict, finances, bereavement, mental health and elder care. We also offer generous paid parental leave and beyond that, paid family-care leave in many locations globally.

Families

Globally, UBS's benefits help employees improve their own well-being and the well-being of their families, including parents, step-parents, children, siblings, partners, and any other family members. We also have regional policies, programs and initiatives to help employees better manage their work and family commitments.

In our major locations, primary caregivers are entitled to a paid leave between 20 to 30 weeks, while secondary caregivers are entitled to four to 20 weeks.
Our enhanced adoption and maternity leave policy in the UK offers full pay for up to 26 weeks. We also offer enhanced "shared parental leave" for eligible parents to get more flexibility in sharing the care of their new child and to receive enhanced shared parental pay for up to 26 weeks.
In the US and Puerto Rico, UBS provides 20 weeks of paid primary and secondary caregiver leave to care for the birth, adoption or foster care placement of a child. This gives everyone equal access to 20 weeks of parental leave and, if both partners work for UBS, they can both take up to 20 weeks of leave.
In Switzerland, family leave benefits include up to 210 days of paid primary caregiver leave and 20 days of paid secondary caregiver leave, with flexible options for additional unpaid leave or reduced working hours. Additionally, UBS provides reimbursement for emergency childcare costs, ensuring our employees have the support they need to balance work and family life.
We have enhanced paid maternity leave to a minimum of 20 weeks across APAC locations, with some regions surpassing this in either paid or unpaid flexible options.
We have increased and aligned secondary caregiver leave across most APAC locations to 30 days and increased flexibility for how the leave can be utilized.
UBS UK partners with Bright Horizons to pay for up to 10 sessions of backup care per year, which can be used across emergency childcare, school holiday cover and backup adult & eldercare.
The Bright Horizons Care Advantage Program in the US offers backup/emergency childcare, including Care Advantage benefits and additional family support through an online database of regular caregivers.
We have increased our support for breastfeeding mothers, adding lactation rooms in locations in the US and Singapore and paid time off for breastfeeding in many locations globally, including for up to two years after the birth of a child in Switzerland.

For more information on benefits offered in the US, click here.