Work / life at UBS

At UBS, we understand that a good work / life balance is pivotal to our employees’ overall wellbeing and to their job satisfaction, and therefore productivity. That’s why we work hard to ensure our employees, whatever their needs, are supported throughout the employee lifecycle. Our employee benefits and award-winning programs detailed below make sure we are able to do just that.

Family

Globally, UBS's family networks help employees improve their well-being and the well-being of their families, including parents, step-parents, children, siblings, partners, or any other family members. We also have numerous policies, programs and initiatives to help employees better manage their work and family commitments. Here are some examples:

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" (up to 26 weeks' full pay both for mothers and fathers) to share childcare responsibilities.
In the US and Puerto Rico, UBS provides 20 weeks of gender-neutral paid 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, we have enhanced our paternity leave offering to 4 weeks.
We have increased and aligned non-primary carer leave across most APAC locations at a minimum of 10 days and increased the flexibility in which the leave can be utilized.
Our Working Parents Coaching Program offers coaching and online support to UK employees and line managers. The CCA’s program in the US provides one-on-one coaching for new parents.
Parental Buddy programs in the UK and Switzerland are expanding and connect employees with like-minded peers and parents to share advice and contacts to help navigate working parenthood.
UBS UK partners with My Family Care to pay for up to 10 sessions of backup care booked 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 as well as additional family support through an online database of regular caregivers.

Flexible working

At UBS, we take a well-balanced approach to meet the needs of our employees and businesses, and further evolve into a more agile organization through flexible working.

We empower our line managers and employees to work together to find the best solution for the individual and the team. Among some of the flexible working opportunities we offer, is job sharing, which allows employees to work part-time for a role that requires full-time coverage by sharing the role with another employee.

Flexible working in the office and from home is also already available in many of our work locations and 35,000 UBS employees (and counting) have visited the UBS Ways Of Working page for tips and virtual sessions to help us all to stay healthy and connected while working from home.

Mental health

Mental health affects everyone. In any given year, 1 in 4 people will suffer some type of mental health challenge. In the workplace, it's 1 in 6 people.

Founded in the UK in 2016, Mental Wealth is an employee network which exists to provide resources, ideas, information and useful links aimed at providing support for anyone who might need it. Since then, we've expanded to several locations, including the US, Poland, APAC and Switzerland.

Our Mental Health Champions in the UK and India are volunteers across the bank trained to guide UBS employees towards the various pathways for help that exist in relation to mental health or emotional issues. This could range from just having a one-off conversation, through to encouraging and signposting the individual to get appropriate help.

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