Investment committed into India over 15 years — the first India FTA with an investment-linked commitment.
EU–India Desk
Your European desk for India. Your Indian team, run from both sides.
A dedicated team in India, and a Switzerland-based lead who owns your account — scoping, contracting, escalations and reviews — in your time zone, in your language.
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ZürichYour point of contact
BengaluruYour dedicated team
TEPAThe timely reason, cited
Why now
India just became structurally easier for Swiss companies.
TEPA — the India–EFTA Trade and Economic Partnership Agreement — was signed in March 2024 and came into force on 1 October 2025. It’s the first India trade deal tied to an investment commitment, and it explicitly covers services and mobility.
Jobs targeted through that investment across the EFTA–India corridor.
Services sub-sectors India / Switzerland opened — IT and business services named as growth areas.
You’re meeting a conversation already happening. Swiss mid-market boardrooms are being briefed on TEPA right now — you’re not creating demand from nothing, you’re acting on it without setting up your own entity.
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The two-person model
One phone call in Europe. One accountable team in India.
In Europe — your Switzerland-based lead is the actual contract owner and escalation point: scoping, contracting and quarterly reviews. A person, not a ticket queue.
In India — we recruit, employ, train and manage a dedicated team — not shared or rotating staff — with proactive weekly flagging built into how they work.
Every concern addressed
You’re not sceptical of India’s talent. You’re sceptical of losing control.
That’s fair — and it’s exactly what this model is built to answer. Here are the real worries, and how we handle each.
“We tried offshoring and quality dropped.”
The real worry: shared, rotating staff with no visible accountability.How we answer it: Dedicated, named team members — not a shared pool — with monthly performance reporting you can hold us to.
“We’ll have no one to call when something goes wrong.”
The real worry: no local accountability.How we answer it: Your Switzerland-based lead is the contract owner and escalation point — a phone call in your time zone, not a queue.
“Communication styles differ — problems surface late.”
The real worry: issues go unflagged until they’re serious.How we answer it: Proactive flagging is a stated deliverable, built into team training and the weekly check-in.
“Data protection and IP risk.”
The real worry: GDPR / Swiss FADP exposure and enforceability.How we answer it: Contracts aligned to Swiss/EU expectations, with SCCs and a documented transfer-risk assessment as standard.
“We don’t know Indian labour law.”
The real worry: legal exposure you can’t evaluate.How we answer it: A compliant employment structure is handled entirely on the India side.
“It’s a big commitment, hard to reverse.”
The real worry: lock-in.How we answer it: Start with one role, 90 days and clear exit terms — test one role for a quarter.
The illustrative case
The number every buyer actually wants to see.
One HR Administrator role in Switzerland versus a Jobman-managed equivalent in India. Indicative, built on public salary benchmarks, and replaced by a real quote once scope is defined.
Cost lineSwitzerland (in-house)India (Jobman-managed)
Base salary / cost~CHF 75,000 / yrCHF 18,000–25,000 all-in
Employer social charges & pension (~25–28%)+ CHF 19,000–21,000Included in managed fee
Recruitment, onboarding, management overheadAdditional, often underestimatedIncluded
Fully loaded annual cost (indicative)~CHF 95,000–98,000~CHF 18,000–25,000
Indicative annual saving per role~CHF 70,000–78,000 · ≈ 70–75%
Scaling it: a 3-person team running ~CHF 270,000–300,000/yr in Switzerland could be delivered for an indicative CHF 65,000–80,000/yr — a saving north of CHF 200,000 per year. Figures are illustrative and not a guaranteed outcome.
Pilot-first · one role · 90 days
Test one role for a quarter.
Reach our Switzerland-based lead directly for European enquiries. We’ll scope a single pilot role with clear exit terms — the smallest possible way to find out this works.