Workplace Well-being: "Employees Want to Feel Involved in Their Company's Project"
10 December 2014
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Improving employee situations and company efficiency are two goals that have become inseparable. But how? Dominique Vandroz, Deputy General Manager of ANACT, the national agency for improving working conditions, is organizing the 10th edition of the Quality of Life at Work week starting this Monday. He discusses with 20 Minutes the place that good practices regarding working conditions must now take.
What has changed in recent years in your approach to well-being at work?
When we started ten years ago, well-being in the company was a communication tool focused on good practices to follow in the company. For the past three years, we have seen a real evolution in the requests from companies that are increasingly interested in employee well-being despite economic gloom and employment issues. We often note in companies a real disconnect between the desired strategy and the work organization put in place. Our goal, by helping companies with their quality of life at work, is to limit the psychosocial risks and burnout that result from this situation. Employees want to participate more and feel involved in their company's project. For employees, being better at work means having the opportunity to commit to their work, being respected, recognized, and not just having amenities like concierges or gyms in the company. This requires profound changes, not cosmetic actions.
How can you be sure that your approach has concrete repercussions?
In the coming weeks, negotiations that have been underway for nine months to reach a national interprofessional agreement on quality of life at work and equal opportunities should be signed. The aim is to bring together quality of life at work and employee and company performance, to work on equality between men and women and on management oriented towards supporting teams. Social partners believe that well-being at work can be one of the solutions to get out of the crisis.
Do you feel a real investment on the part of French companies?
More and more companies are undertaking quality of life at work initiatives. This phenomenon, which started in large companies, is spreading to smaller ones. This interest is more marked in service companies because of the direct link between the quality of service provided and the quality of work needed to produce that service. Well-being at work is a developing market, with many players offering increasingly high-quality offers. In this respect, mutual insurance companies, for example, have a real role to play in prevention.
Bertrand de Volontat.
20minutes.fr
Published December 10, 2014.
What has changed in recent years in your approach to well-being at work?
When we started ten years ago, well-being in the company was a communication tool focused on good practices to follow in the company. For the past three years, we have seen a real evolution in the requests from companies that are increasingly interested in employee well-being despite economic gloom and employment issues. We often note in companies a real disconnect between the desired strategy and the work organization put in place. Our goal, by helping companies with their quality of life at work, is to limit the psychosocial risks and burnout that result from this situation. Employees want to participate more and feel involved in their company's project. For employees, being better at work means having the opportunity to commit to their work, being respected, recognized, and not just having amenities like concierges or gyms in the company. This requires profound changes, not cosmetic actions.
How can you be sure that your approach has concrete repercussions?
In the coming weeks, negotiations that have been underway for nine months to reach a national interprofessional agreement on quality of life at work and equal opportunities should be signed. The aim is to bring together quality of life at work and employee and company performance, to work on equality between men and women and on management oriented towards supporting teams. Social partners believe that well-being at work can be one of the solutions to get out of the crisis.
Do you feel a real investment on the part of French companies?
More and more companies are undertaking quality of life at work initiatives. This phenomenon, which started in large companies, is spreading to smaller ones. This interest is more marked in service companies because of the direct link between the quality of service provided and the quality of work needed to produce that service. Well-being at work is a developing market, with many players offering increasingly high-quality offers. In this respect, mutual insurance companies, for example, have a real role to play in prevention.
Bertrand de Volontat.
20minutes.fr
Published December 10, 2014.
