Employees increasingly value their free time

The relationship to work has changed a lot in France in a few years, according to an Ifop study for the Jean-Jaurès Foundation.

Published on Tuesday and entitled "I love you, me neither, the ambivalences of the new relationship to work", the survey shows that 21% of French employees consider their work to be "very important", against 24% the previous year, reports

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The changes between the current state of mind and that of thirty years ago are enormous.

In 1990, 60% of French people considered their work to be “very important” to them.

Today, 61% of respondents prefer to earn less money but have more free time, notes 

, an inverse ratio compared to 2008-2010 values.

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Work remains important

"More individualistic societal behaviors [...] generate in return less attachment to structures such as work which require an effort to adapt to a collective", indicates Ifop in its study to try to explain this change.

However, 84% of employees declare that their work is “important”.

Money is no longer at the heart of the problem: today's employees are more demanding about the positions occupied, their meaning as well as autonomy and well-being at work.

The younger generations grew up and built themselves “in an anxiety-provoking climate and contributing to desacralizing an ideal of success and meritocracy through work”, according to the study.

A weaker attachment to the employer

This is why certain statuses are popular today, in particular that of freelance, which allows you to choose your time slots, your missions and gives more freedom in the organization.

In a 2021 Ifop barometer, three out of four respondents had a good opinion of freelancers, recalls

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At the same time, the attachment to his employer is increasingly weak.

They were more than a third to say they were proud to belong to their company in 2005, compared to 20% in 2022. The needs/expectations of customers are now considered to be better taken into account than those of employees, according to respondents .

The latter ensure all the same that their involvement has not weakened.

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