L’National Association of Human Resources Directors (ANDRH) did not see, Monday, “major effect” of the epidemic on absenteeism on return from vacation “. At least this is the observation made by Benoît Serre, his vice-president and HR director of L’Oréal, in an interview with AFP.
“By discussing with HRD colleagues, no one noticed a major effect on absenteeism and no one told me about a company forced to lower its production,” he says.
“A heavy atmosphere”
On the other hand, “we noticed that people came back tired of the holidays, that they were not able to celebrate Christmas as they thought, to rest…, continues the vice-president of ANDRH. And the atmosphere was heavy with news and contamination records. “
Benoît Serre believes that the new rules on the isolation of contact cases “will considerably limit absenteeism”. “With the previous rules, contact cases lasted up to ten days and it was a big problem,” he says. In a small business, a person caught the Covid, in his department everyone was in contact and the department or business stopped. When the job was teleworkable, it wasn’t a big deal, but when it wasn’t, there was no activity possible. “