NOTwe, we cannot dismiss an employee for professional inadequacy because he refused to drink alcohol during weekend drinks and thus integrate the value “fun and pro” of his business – understanding the incitement to various excesses. This ubiquitous stop was rendered by the Court of Cassation on November 9, 2022 against the consulting firm Cubik Partners, for facts dating back to 2015.
Beyond the comical anecdote, this judgment seems in tune with the times: as with this employee, an epidemic of distance from work is raging in French companies. “It’s a paradigm shift that never ceases to worry”, “a revolution that does not say its name”, “back to school phenomenon”… Here, pell-mell, are the media formulas that have qualified the “quiet quitting”in French “silent resignation”.
Long after this start of the school year, by imitation, it is difficult to name a “LinkedIn-compatible” HR consultant who has not yet given his opinion on the subject. the “quiet quitting”it is the counterpart fall-winter 2022-2023 of the “great resignation”elected best catch-all expression of the spring-summer 2021 season: while those who can left by slamming the door, the rest of the employees think no less.
The lazy for flameless work
The TikTok application gave birth to this expression across the Atlantic: in July 2022, a young American explained in seventeen seconds of video his intention to do more than what he was hired to do, no more and no less. The union minimum, because “work is not our life”.
But then, what’s new? The analyzes converge to remind us that the morale of employees – French in particular – is not at the top: loss of meaning, fatigue, mental health at half mast, low recognition from superiors, wages caught up by inflation… If all this does not Doesn’t make any sense, so why continue to kill yourself with the task and maintain our French passion for presenteeism? Thus, 24% of French people believe that work is very important in their life, according to a study published on November 11 by the Jean-Jaurès Foundation in partnership with the IFOP, compared to 60% in 1990.
the “plague” particularly affect young people, who, it is well known, “don’t want to work anymore” – a bit like each generation, depending on those that precede it. This “disenchanted generation” does she have a hairy hand at work? Above all, she is lazy to be lazy, in a world of work that does not ignite any flame in her: for 37% of 18-24 year olds interviewed by the BVA institute for the Jean-Jaurès Foundation and Macif at the occasion of their barometer on “Young People and Business”the idea of being bored and not being interested in one’s work causes anxiety.
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