25%: This is the share of employees aged 47 to 61 who work under pressure, i.e. a quarter of this senior population, reveals Annie Jolivet’s contribution to the scientific mediation project “What do we know about work? » of Interdisciplinary laboratory for public policy evaluation (Liepp), broadcast in collaboration with Presses de Sciences Po on the Employment channel of the Lemonde.fr site.
To draw up as exhaustive a landscape as possible of the working conditions of seniors, the economist has established a typology based on the nature and frequency of their daily constraints and highlights the influence of this working environment on sustainability. until retirement age.
The 25% “under pressure”, mainly managers and intermediate professions, are the most numerous to consider that they will not last until retirement. What are their working conditions? They combine the constraints of a tight pace, non-negotiable deadlines, a lack of information or suitable equipment, even an impossibility of cooperating to do their work correctly, an obligation to carry out things that they disapprove of and, finally, they have had to endure significant changes in their business.
This category of seniors “brings together the work situations of employees relatively sheltered from physical constraints but strongly subject to tight time constraintsunderlines Annie Jolivet. These results confirm that the judgment made on the sustainability of one’s work is not only linked to situations of low-skilled work., specifies the researcher. Of all the classes, it is the one that welcomes the highest proportion of graduates beyond the baccalaureate.
In addition to this population particularly marked by time pressure, the typology constructed from surveys « Working conditions 2013 ” And “Working conditions-psychosocial risks 2016includes four categories of seniors:
The most numerous (31% of employees), known as “spared”, is the one that tolerates the least staggered schedules, physical constraints or lack of autonomy in its organization. The majority (52%) are women who are employed or in intermediate professions (health, education). Men in this category (48%) are managers, technicians or qualified workers. More than 70% of these employees thus “saved” feel capable and wish to do the same work until retirement age. There are fewer of them in other categories of seniors.
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