2023-11-24 17:55:07
By Aurore Aimelet
Published 3 hours ago, Updated 3 hours ago
“The organization of work today is abusive,” analyzes sociologist Danièle Linhart. Pinel
PSYCHOLOGY – They disinvest and do the bare minimum. Lazy? No. Rather discouraged for the most part.
In the office, while some are zealous, others opt for the bare minimum, shirk and take no initiative. This disengagement is growing and anglicisms are flourishing: we are talking about “big quit”, the great post-Covid resignation, “quiet quitting”, the art of being there without being there, “brown out” , a demotivation linked to the loss of meaning, or even “act your wage”, or how to act strictly according to your salary. Concepts which all speak of disinvestment or even disgust for work. We readily describe these collaborators as slackers, a very French expression this one, borrowed from military slang: rather than fighting, the soldier goes away, therefore “shoots himself”, to the side, therefore towards the flanks.
Certainly, there have been and always will be “hidden” people who prefer to evade their mission and delegate their tasks. Yet what appears to be a cop-out is often more complex than simple laziness. For experts, it’s just a symptom that hides…
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