The pots return to the company to celebrate the Covid-19

• The latest health protocol allows, in addition to the reopening of nightclubs, the return of pots to companies.

• After two years of pandemic, between confinements and telework, the practice has been lost and the social bond between collaborators has been distended.

• Why does the return of this ritual practice bring us so much joy?

  20 Minutes

  interviewed two experts in psychology at work, who highlight the crushing of the hierarchy and the notion of belonging to the company.

It's time to pop the peanuts!

The return of conviviality pots to the office is yes, since the implementation of the new health protocol for businesses, published on Wednesday.

Let's not beat around the bush: at

, after the disappointment of an end-of-year evening canceled at the last moment due to the Omicron variant, it was enough for us to bring out the ecocups and the juice of Apple.

However, the excitement surrounding the little retirement party of this accountant who had never been seen already existed before the two years of social deprivation, months of confinement and weeks of teleworking, linked to Covid-19.

Meeting people, building relationships, you can do it outside of work.

Why is the company pot so special?

Pots "sympathetically funerary"

Sophie Prunier-Poulmaire, lecturer in work psychology and ergonomics at the University of Paris Nanterre, first notes that for many employees who retire or go to another company, "it's complicated to leave without this last moment together, without highlighting the quality of the work, without a final tribute to the investment in the company", without a "dignified and honorable end point".

Philippe Zawieja, specialist in psychological health at work, goes even further and projects himself on “sympathetically funerary” pots, which will be used as much to “count the dead” as to welcome those who replaced them in the company.

The Parisian researcher, also author of

, also underlines the informal dimension of the pots, which in reality allow "to move forward on the job", by sharing the difficulties encountered by teleworking, to make the circulation of certain information more fluid or via the sharing of "business tips that cannot be found in training", from the oldest to the newcomers.

Without forgetting that the little party "crushes the hierarchical pyramid", making the intern and the CEO pick from the same bowl of peanuts, allowing to discover those for whom we work and vice versa.

The pleasure of criticizing his colleague or his wife

By “being collective”, we “create a corporate culture to retain increasingly volatile employees”, she explains.

In other words, drinking allows you to attach yourself to your company and your colleagues, and to go beyond the “operative” dimension of work, analyzes Philippe Zawieja.

However, “the question of professional identity is very important among the French”, continues Sophie Prunier-Poulmaire, and working from home has been able to blur the boundary between professional life and private life even more, already shaky in 2019.

Enough to give the professional pot a dimension of "breath of oxygen", allowing to discover "other faces, other voices, other smells", "a little quest for the desire for elsewhere", image Philippe Zawieja.

It is therefore with his colleagues that we will be able to talk about his domestic problems, but also find a better echo of his work experience, underlines Sophie Prunier-Poulmaire.

And with them that we will be able to better criticize this colleague that we hate, by breaking the sugar on his back.

Another way of “making society” at work…

For Philippe Zawieja, the return of the pots could even “recreate pleasure at work through the pleasure of being together”, whether it is to slander or not.

It gives them one last virtue: to constitute a “marker of the end of the period we have just experienced”.

Phew!

You can resume normal activity.

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