HR Business Partner. Your HR specialist for people decisions.
Some people questions need more than admin work: what's right in this case, how do we proceed, how do we say it? Our HR Business Partner assesses, recommends and supports. You make the call.
CHF 165 per hour, CHF 150 with HR Management
What's included.
- Assessing personnel cases and recommending next steps: warnings, terminations including notice and protection periods, probation, illness and accidents including continued pay and return to work, pregnancy and maternity leave, working hours, overtime and vacation, non-compete clauses
- Preparing for and supporting termination, warning, return-to-work and conflict conversations, on your side as the employer, on site or online
- Drafting new or non-standard documents: contract clauses beyond your template (such as bonuses, non-competes or remote work), separation agreements, policies and work rules, sensitive letters
- Advising managers on performance or conduct issues, team conflicts, difficult conversations and communication with employees
- Developing HR policies: pay reviews (budget, criteria, pay bands, communication), working-time and vacation rules, collective agreement obligations, onboarding and offboarding processes, performance reviews
- Supporting change, including reorganizations, new roles and layoffs with consultation procedures, up to your decision, with a time estimate up front
What's not included.
- Work done on your instructions (contracts from your template, reference letters, filings, employee records) is HR administration. Payroll, social insurance and withholding tax are part of payroll.
- Legal representation, conciliation and court proceedings. We'll tell you when you need an employment lawyer.
- Personal advice for your employees. We work for you as the employer.
- Neutral mediation, coaching, leadership programs, recruiting, outplacement, interim HR, salary benchmarking, HR audits and payroll software rollouts. We offer these as separate services.
- Your personnel decisions, signatures and instructions to employees. Those stay with you.
What to expect.
- Notice first: if your request counts as advisory work, we tell you up front and estimate the time. Without that notice, we don't charge for the request.
- Billing: time tracked to the minute and rounded up to the next 15 minutes per day, with a time log (date, duration, topic).
- On site or online: we can meet at your office. Travel time is billed at half the hourly rate, expenses only as agreed.
- Confidential: case documents stay in your system or in the storage we agree on.
Your price
CHF 165 per hour, CHF 150 with HR Management
Billed in 15-minute increments, travel time at half the rate. With HR Management, alongside payroll and HR administration, the rate is CHF 150 per hour with 2 hours paid in advance each month; we credit any time you don't use. No setup fee if you book only the HR Business Partner.
All fees are net. We will charge VAT only once we are registered for Swiss VAT.
Let's talk about itWho it's for: Companies without an in-house HR specialist that need experienced advice on personnel cases, difficult conversations and HR policies.
What you gain
You make people decisions with an experienced HR specialist at your side. You pay only for the time you need, billed in 15-minute increments, and we tell you before any time is charged.
HR Business Partner: frequently asked questions.
What's the difference between HR administration and an HR Business Partner?
HR administration carries out what you specify: recording, preparing, updating, filing and reporting, with the content you approve. That includes quick answers on procedures, deadlines, status and paperwork, without assessing a specific case. Our HR Business Partner assesses, recommends, drafts new content and supports you. Rule of thumb: if you tell us what to put in, it's HR administration. If you ask us what's right, it's HR Business Partner.
How much does a quick question cost?
Quick answers on procedures, deadlines, status and paperwork are included in HR administration. If your question needs an assessment of a specific case, we tell you first and estimate the time. Our HR Business Partner then costs CHF 165 per hour, or CHF 150 with HR Management, billed in 15-minute increments. That's CHF 41.25 or CHF 37.50 per 15 minutes. Without that notice, we don't charge anything.
How does HR Management work?
HR Management combines payroll, HR administration and our HR Business Partner. Payroll and HR administration are priced as usual, with a 5% bundle discount. The HR Business Partner rate drops from CHF 165 to CHF 150 per hour. Each month you pay for 2 hours in advance (CHF 300), and we credit any time you don't use on your next invoice. Nothing expires.
Who makes the decisions?
You do. Our HR Business Partner assesses, recommends and supports. Personnel decisions, signatures and instructions to employees stay with you.
Let's talk about what you need.
A free, no-obligation 30-minute call.