Office notebook. Before the final negotiation session between the social partners on the “life at work pact” and the employment of seniors set for April 8, the digital platform Review Jobs, specializing in the employee experience, questioned more of 1,000 employees from March 9 to 12 on the place of over 55s in their company. Respected but little desired, summarizes in two words their judgment on this category of assets.
All employees consider that seniors are more involved and more exemplary than they see themselves. They judge them to be competent (76%) and careful (69%). 44% even consider them creative in their work. A good image at first glance.
But paradoxically, when the questions relate to the increase in the employment rate of seniors, made necessary by the postponement of the legal retirement age to 64, 30% of young people under 25 and 38% executives find that “It’s a good idea, but not here”. It cannot apply to their profession, not to their business, they say.
In this survey published on March 28, 40% of employees report a lack of appropriation of new technologies by those over 55, 31% of young employees consider them incapable of getting used to working differently (teleworking, projects collaborative), and 39% of senior executives also believe they are incapable of understanding the expectations of younger people. “Our analysis is that young people do not have a very precise outlook, because they have few seniors near them”, puts Nicolas Marette, the founder of Review Jobs, into perspective. In 44% of the companies consulted for its study, seniors represent less than 10% of the workforce.
In certain sectors of activity
These signals of tension in intergenerational relations appear against a backdrop of slowing employment dynamics. The recruitment forecasts for senior executives published Tuesday April 2 by the Association for the Employment of Executives (APEC) for 2024 indicate that the door of companies tends to close in front of the oldest: “The private sector would consider recruiting up to 20,220 executives with more than twenty years of experience (6% of all recruitments)”or 15% less than in 2023.
These very experienced executives would be “more popular in industrial companies than in services”, specifies APEC. In other words, thehe employment rate of 55-64 year olds that the government would like to bring closer to the European average of 62.4% (compared to 56.9% in France in 2022) would be more feasible in certain sectors of activity more open to older employees.
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