By SudOuest.fr with AFP
Posted on 05/26/2021 at 12:08 p.m.
Updated on 05/26/2021 at 12:12 p.m.
While the health protocol in companies will lighten on June 9 in France, employee morale is worrying. Two million people experience severe burnout
Burnout or professional exhaustion “explode” on the eve of a gradual return to the office and the psychological distress of employees remains high, according to a barometer of the psychological health of French employees, produced by OpinionWay and presented on Wednesday.
“The burnout rate has doubled in one year, peaking at 2 million people with severe burnout,” notes Christophe Nguyen, head of the Franco-Quebec firm Empreinte Humaine, specializing in the prevention of psychosocial risks (burn-out , depressions, suicides …), by presenting the seventh wave of this barometer since the start of the Covid crisis.
Burnout “concerns managers 1.5 times more”, he specifies, estimating that “with such figures, in a context of a return to the offices, we can unfortunately expect a new explosion of stoppages. illness in the coming months ”.
“People who work like robots”
This “severe professional burnout” translates, says Christophe Nguyen, by a form of “dehumanization” with “people who work like robots to protect themselves from their emotions” and who “censor themselves” for fear of talking about it.
The indicators of the psychological state of employees also remain “very worrying” with 44% of employees in psychological distress (-1 point compared to March 2021) including 17% high (identical), according to the survey which shows that six in ten employees believe that their management “does not realize the psychological state of employees and does not act accordingly”.
Psychological distress is an internationally validated indicator of mental health used to diagnose mental disorders.
The 7th wave of the “impact of the health crisis on the psychological health of employees” barometer was carried out online from April 30 to May 10, 2021 with a representative panel of 2,007 employees using the quota method.
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