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Civil service: “The bureaucratic peril”

2023-03-02T19:29:13.278Z


The editorial of Le Figaro, by Gaëtan de Capèle. Does our administration have to be so sick to no longer encourage vocations? Once considered a Holy Grail where one found prestige and comfort, it attracted generations of French people, who jostled for a place there. It is now quite the opposite: fewer and fewer candidates are registering for its competitions and, in some places, there are real staff shortages. This disaffection, it will be said,


Does our administration have to be so sick to no longer encourage vocations?

Once considered a Holy Grail where one found prestige and comfort, it attracted generations of French people, who jostled for a place there.

It is now quite the opposite: fewer and fewer candidates are registering for its competitions and, in some places, there are real staff shortages.

This disaffection, it will be said, also affects many companies, which are unable to recruit, despite all their efforts.

Search for meaning, rejection of constraints, priority to family life… Everything has been said about the reasons why the younger generations are straining their relations with the world of work.

The same symptoms obviously affect the public service.

Above all, the administration is paying the price for the narrow-minded corporatism of its unions, which are so eager for endless “additional means”…

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Source: lefigaro

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