More than one manager in two regularly works overtime due to “a heavy workload” and for 58% of them these hours are neither paid nor recovered, according to a study published Thursday by Viavoice for the Ugict-CGT.
While former Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin last week called for an increase in working hours beyond 35 hours to increase state revenue, the study shows that managers “already have a heavy workload” and ” they are not able to cope with it”, “Caroline Blanchot, general secretary of the Ugict-CGT – which represents engineers, managers and technicians – tells AFP.
Telecommuting does not protect executives
“Executives start the week already late with emails that arrived over the weekend, but also with those that they didn’t have time to process the previous week,” he continues. Overall, 30% of executives surveyed estimate their weekly working hours to be less than 40 hours, 38% between 40 and 44 hours, 21% between 45 and 48 hours, and 12% 49 hours or more, explains the investigation in detail. And in 2024 there are still 48% who sometimes work on days off, compared to 56% in 2015.
According to 61% of respondents, teleworking does not protect them from “excessive working hours”. Two thirds of them ask for an effective right to disconnect (compared to 56% in 2016). Increasingly, executives’ priorities are work-life balance (73% vs. 68% in 2016), pay (63% vs. 52%), content and meaning of their work (53%), before career ( 15%).
The majority (52%) believe their pay is inadequate compared to actual working hours, compared to 46% who believe it is adequate. Opinions are divided regarding the workload and their involvement. The survey, carried out by Viavoice, was conducted via online interviews from 9 to 20 September 2024, on a sample of 1,000 people, representative of the population of executives in metropolitan France, using the quota method.
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