Soon, the big executive resignation? According to an Ifop study for the HR consultant Arthur Hunt and the Bona fidé agency, 58% of executives and high-level managers say they are “tempted” to resign. 40% of them declare to be interested in undertaking or carrying out an activity on their own.
Yet these high-level executives and managers, for the most part, show no signs of dissatisfaction or disgust with their employer. 76% of them say they are “invested and committed” to transforming their business.
Also 87% (96% of the executives and 80% of the managers) declare themselves “satisfied” with their relationships with their N+1 and consider that they have the qualities required in their function. Finally, 84% of leaders and managers have a good image of the management of their company.
A structural change in the relationship with work?
If these desires from elsewhere do not come from a malaise of executives and leaders, what is their origin? For the auteurs de l’étude, la réponse est davantage à chercher du côté d'”une modification plus profonde et plus structurelle du rapport au travail, avec des attentes grandissantes en matière de sens de son poste, d’éthique et de responsabilité générale of the company”.
However, this is not a major resignation from French executives. In fact, there is often a step between the willingness to give up and the act. A significant difference highlighted by Alan’s Health Insurance Barometer with Harris Interactive, which covers all employees. According to this work, 44% of them were thinking of quitting, while only 18% said they really would.
Not to mention that the current economic situation could well act as an additional brake. Asked by BFM Business, the CEO and co-founder of Alan, Jean-Charles Samuelian-Werve, believes that this “scissor effect” is explained in particular by “the fear of inflation and the war in Ukraine”.
A dynamic job market
In addition, the characteristics of this upward trend in resignations are not accompanied, in most cases, by a lasting exit from the labor market. According to a Dares study published on August 19, in the first quarter of 2022, 510,000 resignations were registered, including 470,000 from people with indefinite contracts, a record level in more than fifteen years.
According to the co-author of this study, Michaël Orand, this increase in the number of resignations is mainly explained by the current dynamism of the labor market. “As the unemployment rate is going down, recruiting employers naturally have to turn more to people who are already on the job,” he explained on the air. Business B.F.M..
At the same time, the employment rate has never been higher in France and has reached 70%, Michaël Orand also stressed. Eight out of 10 people who quit found a job six months later.
The Ifop study for the human resources consultant Arthur Hunt and the Bona fidé agency was carried out with 200 senior executives and 300 supervisory managers from companies with more than 50 employees. Responses were collected from August 30 to September 14, 2022.
Source: BFM TV
