An insistent grain of sand in the shoe: such is the effect of Omicron in the life of companies.
With peaks of more than 400,000 cases per day, the resurgence of the epidemic is forcing companies to juggle with absenteeism that reaches double, and sometimes five times the usual rate of 5%.
A third of the companies surveyed by the Medef in Île-de-France deplore between 10% and 25% of absent employees.
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The sectors that are under the greatest pressure are those where many tasks are only done face-to-face.
Admittedly, the factories do not stop turning nor the stores or the restaurants to open (with exception): the reduction of the rules of isolation, on January 2, limited the damage.
The chaos that some experts feared in December did not happen.
But customer service is sometimes degraded, and employees are very busy.
This is the case in bank branches.
In early January, banks were transferring employees from one branch to another in order to keep as many points as possible...
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