A large majority of the French are satisfied with their work. This is one of the conclusions of the study published this Thursday by the Institut Montaigne after having questioned 5,000 active people.
The study also points out that they are largely opposed to raising the legal retirement age, in a context of strong mobilization against the reform, and that many of them consider their workload excessive.
The French would love their job no less than before the global pandemic
77% of the French in office are generally satisfied with their work, according to the survey by the liberal think tank which underlines that the results are in contradiction with the idea of a loss of meaning or even a “great resignation”. Therefore satisfied despite a workload that most consider more important today than five years ago, and that a quarter of them even consider excessive. But that would not be related to the duration. A bad relationship with bosses, lack of autonomy or even mental fatigue are some of the main reasons cited by those who say they are facing an excessive workload.
The increase in mental difficulties at work is a subject that has occupied more and more space in the debate in recent years. The results of the study “confirm how much contemporary working conditions can affect the physical, and even more mental, well-being of workers.” The number of sick leave in France increased last year, with 42% of employees prescribing at least one, according to another survey published at the end of 2022 by IFOP and the Jean Jaurès foundation. And both exhaustion and psychological disorders are increasingly at the origin.
The growing desire, born with the health crisis, to do more teleworking and the increase in “atypical hours”, that is, working after 8:00 p.m. or on weekends, for example, are also among the findings of the report.
The French refuse to work anymore
On the thorny issue of the minimum retirement age, the French people surveyed seem to be on the side of the street. Half of those surveyed even considered that leaving at 62 is already too late; only 7% support an extension of active life.
The survey corroborates the unpopularity of the pension reform that the Government has been promoting for several weeks and that would significantly lower the legal retirement age to 64 years. After two days of mobilization that each brought together more than a million people in France, unions and strikers have already announced the continuation of their movement on February 7 and 11.
62 years old, is it too late? More than 40% of workers would like to retire early even if they receive a reduced pension, according to the study.
survey after survey
The surveys on the relationship of workers with their work follow one another without always going in the same direction. At the end of last year, the phenomenon of “silent resignation” or “silent resignation” gave a lot of talk. The tendency, which consists of settling for doing the minimum at work, in order to refuse to invest, has therefore increased since the health crisis.
Source: BFM TV
