Employment: How the health crisis has changed relationships at work

Un shaken world of work. Covid, the boom in remote work and the awareness of environmental and social issues have fundamentally changed the organization of companies and forms of employment in recent years. Can we talk about a labor revolution in France?

Professional life after 2020 has taken a thousand faces. Noemi-Burgard (45) has spent the last twenty years changing her career and her way of working: she took a job in a private sector recruitment firm, she resumed her studies as a midwife, her profession and her passion for public service. He had to leave to test the working conditions. In constant search for social benefit and the best balance between family life and professional mission, he finally started his own business and invested in sports coaching. But it does not exclude re-transformation.

On the other hand, things have changed little for Jean-Michel Casalonga. A master bootmaker, an employee of Berluti for twenty years, he believes he has acquired a safe gesture in his work as the last maker. And the place of his profession in the labor market is as stable as he is. His profession has always been one of its rarity “Tension Works” What we often talk about today about developers in the high-tech sector.

Finally, Mathilde Le Coz, HRD France in Mazars, belongs to the new world of slashers: employee of a consulting firm/(slash) HR Lab president self-employed 10% of her time, she combines activities.

Working in the moonlight

In 2023, the variety of work seems to have become infinite, both in content and form. A career can henceforth consist of a set of activities that develop one after the other or in parallel. Pluralism has become commonplace. Fragmentation of slasher mode work (child tutor/illustrator; salaried web marketer/digital coach, etc.) already affects nearly 6 million workers in 2022.

This activity occurs by moonlight (outside of compensable working hours). “Business of the Moon”As the Americans say, the maximum fragmentation of that time is added ”  Atomized from work  », The infamous 320,000 micro-workers have been renamed ”  Let’s try digital  » : 266 000 casual workers and 52 000, for which this is the main activity, thanks to the three researchers Clement Le Ludec (MSH Paris-Saclay), Paola Tubaro (CNRS/LRI) and Antonio A. According to figures prepared by Cassil (Télécom ParisTech). To less than a million these micro-workers, whose Fragmented and standardized tasks usually pay a fraction, However, they are ” More numerous than VTC drivers and bike delivery people »Emphasizes Pôle emploi.