The second downsizing in three years.
Employees of the monthly
Psychologies Magazine
demanded, in a press release, the suspension of a reorganization plan announced to staff representatives at the end of March and which could lead to several layoffs.
This plan provides in particular for the elimination of the mock-up and iconography service, ie seven people and whose activity would be outsourced.
"How to absorb the workload with such a small staff?
"
“Of course, the economic context of the press is particularly difficult at the moment, but that cannot justify a purely accounting response”, argue the employees, who fear seeing their magazine “cut off from its vital strength”, while it has also suffered "many departures not replaced in recent years". And this, even as the magazine has increased its publications by multiplying special issues, and in March launched a new quarterly dedicated to women's well-being called
Holi
.
"How will we be able to absorb the workload tomorrow with such a small workforce?" ", Worry the employees, who consider this project" in total contradiction with the values carried for years by
Psychologies
"and say they are" in shock ". Contacted by AFP, the magazine's management confirmed the existence of "a reorganization project involving seven threatened positions, including three freelancers", without making any other statements at this stage, the consultation period of the CSE n 'not being completed. The magazine currently has 56 permanent employees.
Like many magazines, the monthly has seen its sales in France fall in recent years.
While they exceeded 300,000 copies on average, they fell to 176,000 last year, according to Alliance data for press and media figures.
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