A study by the Montaigne Institute published on October 21 calls for “lifting taboos” on closets, by a broad dialogue in businesses and administrations.
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“We admit as a confidential basis that these situations exist, but we willingly qualify them as pis-aller”, sighs Franck Morel. In a Note on the use of seniors published on October 21 by the Montaigne Institute, a liberal inspiration think that, this associate lawyer of the firm Flichy Grangé Avocats, also former advisor Prime Minister Edouard Philippe returns to a phenomenon admitted with lips by employers: the closet of employees, which have become useless with regard to the company.
What do we recognize a “closet”? The absence of meaning and interest in the tasks requested from it, its sidelining of the work collective, the great weakness of its workload and the absence of regular contact with the hierarchy direct, describes the Montaigne Institute. “Placardization” would concern two hundred thousand active workers, all ages, according to another survey (to be published) conducted for the Montaigne Institute by the Kantar Survey Institute.
The “closet bets” would weigh at least 10 billion euros per year in direct and indirect costs, according to the Montaigne Institute. The Think Thank made this estimate from wage and health insurance expenses. Certainly a minority on the total workforce, the phenomenon “concerns more women and raises more serious difficulties for seniors”.
One of the explanations is the famous principle of Peter, theorized by Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull, according to which each employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. “For a promotion, we are based on the qualities of the position where you are and not where you are going to be,” explains Franck Morel.
Over their career, employees would be mechanically assigned to positions for which they would not have the necessary skills. More than the decline of physical capacities or the growing discrepancy with regard to the developments of the company, it would first be this phenomenon which would lead the seniors to see each other, at the end of the race, relegated to the closet, advances Mr. Morel.
Contrary to popular belief, this situation would affect administrations as well as SMEs and large groups. “To my surprise, I thought it was more a subject of executives, recognizes Franck Morel; but the Kantar survey shows us that these situations can concern all types of employment and all employee profiles.” The cost And “legal insecurity” around the dismissal of a senior employee, associated with the risk in terms of reputation for the company, would also encourage employers to favor the “closet”.
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