CConditions for (tele)working are too harsh, need for a fresh start, fatigue… During the Covid-19 pandemic, many French people voluntarily left their jobs. A decision that is often difficult to make… and that many of them regret today, reveals a study shared by the HuffPost. The survey, conducted by Morning Consult on behalf of Ultimate Kronos Group, was conducted between December 2021 and January 2022. 1,950 resigning employees and 1,850 employers facing one or more resignations during the pandemic were interviewed.
In France, according to the results, 63% of employees who decided to leave their job now regret this decision. This is a record in Europe, the study having also been conducted in Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, the United States and Mexico. Only 24% of them now say they are “extremely satisfied” to have resigned. Moreover, only a third of them have found work.
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Managers just as annoyed
The Morning Consult study shows that it was the managerial conditions that mainly pushed the resigning French to quit everything. Here again, this is a French exception that is not found in the other countries surveyed. More specifically, details the HuffPostit is the lack of valuation that is mainly cited by the French respondents.
These regrets are also shared by employers who have seen employees set sail at the heart of the pandemic. 74% of them say they are ready to rehire those who have chosen to leave. The possibility of returning – like the prodigal son – must however be nuanced. On the one hand, only one in five managers say they are ready to rehire “all” the employees who have left. On the other hand, and to conclude, it is again in France that employers are the least disposed to once again place their trust in a resigning employee.
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