a week in search of meaning

For nearly twenty years, the Anact-Aract network has organized a week dedicated to working conditions. Theme of this 2022 edition: “In search of meaning at work”. How is the relationship to work changing? What motivates an employee, makes him want to stay or, on the contrary, to leave? To evolve, in his company or elsewhere?

So many questions that will be in the spotlight this week, during the discussion sessions offered by the Anact-Aract network to employers, managers and employees. Objective: to identify courses of action in favor of work that is a “health, inclusion and performance factor”.

To do this, podcasts, workshops, webinars and other conference-debates are planned.

The theme of this edition was chosen as a common thread to accompany the recovery, after more than two years of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Among the most exposed during the long months of the health crisis, so-called “front line” and “second line” salaried workers express strong expectations, in particular of recognition, while they occupy jobs that are often arduous and poorly paid, and sometimes “invisible”.

Companies in shortage occupations are looking for new ways to attract candidates, or to bring back employees who have left, sometimes demotivated by the alternation of unemployment, partial activity and recovery.

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How to telecommute well?

Telework, which has developed strongly over the past two years, has highlighted the search by many workers for a quest for new balances between their job and their personal life. With sometimes, for the supervision, real difficulties.

These are all subjects that make the “meaning” given to work a real challenge for companies and workers alike: “The crisis and new forms of work have crystallized these issues over the past two years on psychosocial risks and their prevention”, believes Natalène Levieil, project director at LHH. According to her, the issues of quality of life and working conditions require going well beyond “sports and leisure activities, or the establishment of a hybrid organization”.

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