Today, more and more employees no longer hesitate to take flight in their careers. If the phenomenon was not completely new, it would have been accentuated under the influence of the epidemic. Decoding:
Start as an employee before taking the deep dive into entrepreneurship, leaving your company to return two years later… Changes or return trips seem to be more accepted, even canonized. A phenomenon that affects all spheres. We weigh in with Alexia Colson-Duparchy, executive coach and author The art of making your career fly*.
Madame Figaro. – What do we owe this development to?
Alexia Colson-Duparchy. – These transformations come to us from the Anglo-Saxon model. In the United States, Canada, England… the standard is to leave your job and your company after about three or four years. Basically, we bypassed his job, we demand a better salary, so we don’t hesitate to change. We trusted you, you were able to successfully implement the project, period. And it is accepted that the work is for the benefit of the company, but also for the employee. On the other hand, loyalty is still very much dominant in France. The employee is expected to take responsibility. That he sacrifices himself for his company, which in return will ensure that he can grow. But from now on we allow ourselves to have expectations from our employer. the relationship is more equal.
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Should the departure of the company be sacrilegious?
The fact that the employee will look elsewhere is not a stab at the contract. It does not prevent a person from being fully involved in his work… Only after some time a form of fatigue can occur. You just want to grow in your role, and sometimes resignation is the solution.
After all, we attach great importance to work, which occupies a significant place in our lives. Have we not idealized too much?
Work has value for many people. Like it or not, we define ourselves by our work. You just have to see how many times you have appeared at the party in your professional capacity. This immediately frames the interlocutor. This is the “ice breaker”. When I was a lawyer, when I advertised my profession, people immediately put a caricature definition on me: well-educated, well-earned in life… But still, it’s hard to define yourself other than by your profession or your family; Work says a lot about us. This provides information about our social status, interests, etc.
Covid changed the relationship of trust between workers and employers
Alexia Colson-Duparchy, Executive Coach
that covidhas it created a form of detachment, distance in us?
The health crisis and remote work have allowed us to take a step back. As in a giant laboratory, we experimented with many things, questioned the established order, and finally realized that there were other ways of working. Covid has also transformed the relationship of trust between workers and employers. Not that we don’t see his teams anymore that they don’t work. And today, employees are waiting for autonomy. Now we ask ourselves: what is my zone of freedom? This is a real shock for companies that will have to revise their models.
Is this demand for autonomy a sign of a new work relationship? We have entered an era fast work ?
I notice a trend of consumerism. increasingly, when you are not satisfied with your work, you leave. But, above all, I see a big step back from the workplace in our life. We do what we are asked, nothing more. Employees appreciate that the bond of loyalty is two-way. They can be committed if they feel that the company listens to them and trusts them. If so, they stay.
Is it a good idea to go back and forth like boomerang employees do?
Employees who leave their company and return there have experienced things. Some have created their own business, others have joined other structures. Either way, they learned a lot. That is why “boomerangs” are very generally driven people. They create group dynamics and are a power of suggestion. They have a very positive “disruptive” effect. They are nothing more than a broken coffee machine.
*The art of making your career flyHachette Practical Editions.
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Source: Le Figaro
