1. Between teleworking and office presence, long live the hybrid model!
Okay, we’ll have to wait a few more weeks (if not a few months) before they’re really reopened. But when it does, French employees will be very happy to return to the office… from time to time.
After the crisis, 78% of French talents aspire to a hybrid work model allowing them to combine office and teleworking (64% worldwide), according to the‘étude BCG / Cadremploi « Decoding Global Ways of Working »*.
When they project themselves into this new model, French talents want to spend more time at the office than at home.
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63% of French respondents wish to benefit from a maximum of 2 telecommuting days per week, note the authors of the study.
2. Office hours, but what hours?
Decidedly, HRDs have not finished tearing their hair out with the new aspirations of post-covid employees. And especially the youngest. For them, exit the day of work well paced as before. “The pandemic has called into question the classic working day, with fixed hours. This is particularly visible in France where 80% of talents say they are interested in the possibility of adapting their working hours to their liking, against 64% in the rest of the world ”, relates the study.
“Work must continue to be elastic. We can clearly see that in the midst of the crisis, employees take a break between 5 and 9 p.m. to manage children and meals and then reconnect to work. We need a certain flexibility of action on the part of employees and companies ”, insists Vincent Balouet, specialist in the anticipation of systemic crises and founder of the firm maitrisedescrises.com. All this while obviously taking care to avoid an overconnection and an overload of work.
3. The salary would no longer be the priority of the French
According to the BCG / Cadremploi study, if the top 5 expectations of French talents remain unchanged compared to 2018, their order is changing under the influence of telework and the crisis. On your mind : the interest of the missions and of good relations with colleagues and managers. Work-life balance seems less of a priority in a context where the prevalence of homework allows more flexibility. In France, compensation only comes in 7th position while it occupies the 4th position of expectations at the international level.
This difference is probably influenced by the aid put in place by the French state since the start of the crisis.
“In view of the economic and existential crisis that we are going through, what we took for granted now appears to be desirable., explains Pierre Antebi, co-director of The Network and one of the authors of the report. During a pandemic, people are happy to have a job and a stable income. At the same time, good relationships with colleagues and the desire to have a balanced life remain crucial. Employers must ensure that these needs are met, even in virtual work environments. “
4. Candidates aim for meaningful jobs
In France, one in two people say that they would not accept a job offer from a company whose environmental policies do not correspond to their personal convictions. Would the candidates have become divas?
Beyond the pandemic, many events led candidates to pay more attention to the values conveyed by companies.
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So much for the declarative. But in practice, will candidates be able to stick to their line of conduct and refuse positions with less impact and perhaps not quite in line with their values? Everything will obviously depend on the conditions for restarting recruitments, punctuated by the law of supply and demand. But also, if they are unemployed, their ability to financially resist potential long months without work. Not easy with the upcoming tightening of conditions for access to unemployment insurance and the implementation of the degression of unemployment benefits for the highest salaries (more than 4,500 euros per month) from July 1.
5. Management does not make people dream
Me, manager? No thanks ! The fate reserved for managers during this crisis does not seem to make people envious if we are to believe the talents surveyed. On the contrary. Pressed between a rock and a hard place, they did what they could to manage from a distance. All with phenomenal economic pressure for the most part.
The crisis has somewhat upgraded the role of managers and yet, only 12% of French employees today aspire to become a manager.
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Little or no training for this new kind of remote management, employees prefer to abstain than to do badly. Or maybe they think that the manager is no longer useful in this new organization of work that is emerging.
* Methodology Survey conducted among 208,807 respondents in 190 countries by BCG, Cadremploi and The Network – including 5308 in France. Respondents are registered on the partner job search sites of The Network (Cadremploi in France).
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