REPORTAGE
No, you are not dreaming: the company, based in the metropolis of Lyon, is called LDLC, it sells IT online, employs 900 people across France, and will spend its troops at 32 hours per week over 4 days, without drop in salary. Employees, we imagine, delighted ...
"The company will find its way"
"Strongly that we sign this agreement", even exclaimed the CGT delegate when she learned the news a few days ago, when Laurent de la Clergerie, CEO of LDLC, unveiled her project: to establish for its 900 paid 32-hour week paid 35, all over 4 days.
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"I joked saying to the employees 'I guarantee you, I hadn't taken any illicit substances, I was in my normal state'", laughs the CEO at the microphone of Europe 1, who took the model on an experiment conducted by Microsoft in Japan.
"I think that I will find my way and that the company will find its way there, because people will be happy and will be more efficient," he analyzes. "If an employee is happy, that goes without saying. If an employee is happy, he will pass it on to the client, and if the client feels that the box feels good, he will be better able to come to us."
Profits and hires
A way for this boss to concretize his philosophy of well-being at work; but if he can do it it's also because LDLC is doing well, with profits of 16 million this year.
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"It is true that in our entourage, it makes you jump out of the chair a little", says Kévin who, like the other employees, is in heaven. "It shows a real confidence on the part of the leaders towards the employees, in our autonomy to do our work. Socially, it is true that it is a big gain for us."
The icing on the cake is that the company should hire dozens of people to compensate for this drop in working hours, an incredible situation in these times of economic crisis.