In 2021, private sector executives increased the absenteeism rate

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While economic activity is picking up again, worried business leaders are closely scrutinizing the curve of sick leave filed by their employees. But it is the managers, exhausted by months of health crisis, who risk failing them.

Conducted in partnership with Harris Interactive, a study by the social protection group Malakoff Humanis, entitled “The impact of the health crisis on absenteeism in companies and psychosocial risks”, sheds an instructive light on the evolution of the profile of absentee workers. In the enterprises.

According to the results of this survey, during which 10,028 private sector employees were questioned, the number of employees on sick leave increased by 30% between January and May 2021 and the proportion of work stoppages among managers exploded. compared to that of non-managers: in May 2021, 23% of the former on average filed at least one work stoppage, against 13% for the latter. While this gap was almost non-existent at 1er semester 2020, it has continued to improve since then.

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Managers’ work stoppages are also more related to professional reasons: 32%, against 26% for all employees. An unprecedented development compared to previous surveys conducted by Malakoff Humanis on absenteeism, according to Anne-Sophie Godon: “The fatigue of managers is today a real subject in companies, Advance by way of explanation the director of services of Malakoff Humanis. They had to ensure the cohesion of the collective, manage organizations while maintaining their objectives. “

While the whole of France celebrated front-line workers, managers, often invisible by teleworking, saw their role called into question.

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The fatigue of managers was highlighted in another study, conducted by Opinion Way for Human Footprint. In December 2020, this human resources consulting firm looked into the psychological state of French employees. In this study, 56% of managers already declared themselves in a situation of “Psychological distress”, more than other categories of employees; 35% of employees even said they were worried about the moral state of their manager.

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While the country was emerging from a second confinement, before plunging into the third wave of the epidemic, the supervisors had to manage, for many months, the repercussions of the crisis on the company and its employees.

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