Covid-19: how the crisis has changed the relationship of employees to work and to their company

While the countries one after the other lift the constraints of confinement, a year of crisis has profoundly changed the relationship of employees to work and to their company ...

"This is what emerges from a long study carried out by the No Com firm with Ifop. One would have thought that with the crisis and the distance due to teleworking of some of the employees, the links would have been It is quite the opposite: 80% of employees say they are satisfied with their professional situation, 6 points more than before the crisis. And nearly 60% of employees think that this difficult year strengthened attachment to their business.

As if the distance, basically, had produced a lack.

Moreover, 81% of employees are even ready to say that they "love" their company!

80% of them also consider that companies have shown a very high capacity for adaptation.

We can say that the image of the private sector, which has mobilized a lot and which has been very responsive, has emerged stronger from this crisis.

The view on the social role of the company is also evolving ...

We were already talking, before the Covid, about the raison d'être of companies, their social and environmental role ... The crisis has really reinforced this: 87% of employees think that beyond their economic activity, the company plays a role in society, it is 11 points higher than before the crisis.

The look is changing.

The French, basically, are more positive and confident than we think or the impression they give: they are for example 67% to declare themselves optimistic for their professional life after the health crisis.

It's a good sign, it means that they believe in the recovery, they believe in the rebound.

A post-crisis in which the relationship to work will evolve ...

This is clear, because teleworking, which many have really discovered, is popular: 84% of employees consider it positive or very positive, even though all professions do not lend themselves to it in the same way.

At the same time, they are aware that teleworking can pose problems: 70% of graduates and senior managers complain of a feeling of loss of connection and even isolation.

We can therefore see that we will have to find a new balance.

This is important, because almost half of the employees are thinking of changing their professional life. That does not mean that they will do it, but the employers who will retain their employees are the ones who will have known how to organize the work differently while maintaining the link. This is the challenge of the new teleworking agreements that are being negotiated in thousands of companies today. "