A break in the relationship to work? The Covid-19 pandemic and the temporalities of employees’ management of their career paths

Marie-Élodie Laurent, Laurent Taskin and Pascal Ughetto ()
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Marie-Élodie Laurent: DRM - Dauphine Recherches en Management - Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Louvain School of Management - UCL - Université Catholique de Louvain = Catholic University of Louvain
Laurent Taskin: Louvain School of Management - UCL - Université Catholique de Louvain = Catholic University of Louvain
Pascal Ughetto: LATTS - Laboratoire Techniques, Territoires et Sociétés - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - Université Gustave Eiffel - ENPC - École nationale des ponts et chaussées - IP Paris - Institut Polytechnique de Paris

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Abstract: The health crisis is considered to have caused a break in the relationship to work for many employees, who have drawn the consequences through a marked change in their career path. The article questions this hypothesis based on fifteen in-depth interviews with employees of Belgian private and public companies, collected in Spring 2021 in a collaborative research design. It considers the relationship to work and career choices made by individuals by placing them at the crossroads of organizational, professional and family norms that individuals strive to balance. Our results show that while the health crisis represented a shock, it especially amplified and precipitated considerations that play out over longer time frames. Distance from the company and time spent constantly with family members imposed an increased weight on family norms forcing a restructuring of balances, with organizational norms now obliged to deal with the former.

Keywords: Transdisciplinary; Career; Covid; Timing; Career path; Relationship to work (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022-09-15
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Published in Revue internationale de psychosociologie et de gestion des comportements organisationnels, 2022, XXVIII (73), pp.63-83

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