Following a medical operation, Arthur Sadoun, head of the French communication group Publicis, discovered that he was carrying HPV, the cancer linked to the papillomavirus: "I was told that I had to follow a preventive treatment made of x-rays and chemos;
I knew my body was going to change, I knew I wasn't going to be able to travel anymore so I decided to go public with my illness,” he explains.
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Demonstrating transparency in the world of work, however, was not easy: "it was a very difficult decision because many people told me that talking about it would be considered an act of weakness, that I could not allow him as a boss – knowing that my mandate ended a few months later –;
but my wife, my family, my relatives supported my decision… so I did it!
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OUR “CANCER” FILE
Since then, Arthur Sadoun has launched Working with Cancer, an initiative allowing sick employees to “guarantee” their professional life.
“We are going to ask the world's greatest CEOs to commit to making their companies a place where you feel safe when you have a chronic illness.
And we are going to offer individualized coaching to make you understand that it is not because you have cancer that you are at the end of your career, ”reveals the fifty-year-old.
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