The announcement of a move by the CMI group to the Editis head office was clearly too much, but one that the non-executive chairman, Denis Olivennes, fully assumes. Of course, he had announced that this would not take place, because the walls of 92 avenue de France would have to be pushed open. But after a tour of the owner, all things considered, he will have changed his mind.
Don't push, there's actually room
Especially since the lease of the CMI France offices (Elle, Marianne, Télé 7 jours, Version Femina, etc.) will come to an end next year – and these would be offices belonging to the Bolloré group. In line with the Editis Media Groupe project unveiled last April, some 350 employees, out of the 700 at CMI France, would share the offices of the editorial group.
Grouping companies together rather than making team cuts, the Olivennes method demonstrates foolproof human logic. Better: he prefers to shake up Editis employees a little more from now on, rather than outright heckle them in three years. If the proximity of teams should create links and improve costs, Denis Olivennes and Catherine Lucet presented this solution as a reduction in offices, to avoid targeting employees.
And when employees talk about inconvenience, we respond that we have to go through that to frolic tomorrow towards horizons that sing. Besides, in the press, we have been in open space for a while, the arguments were the same and ultimately, everyone got used to it, right?
Especially since Daniel Kretinsky is a shareholder invested in the long term for Editis, but it is important to recover the turnover of the two companies: this prospect of family reunification is therefore based on an active dynamic. “Or the least bad solution», we hear.
Some turbulence to expect
However, the upcoming inconveniences, which the CGT had denounced in mid-October, are getting closer. Months of teleworking in perspective to arrange offices and open up spaces widely. “We are asked to give an opinion in two months, when the information and consultation procedure, for the previous move, had taken more than a year», assured us a union representative.
Concretely, “no more designated offices, no more partitions, lockers for employees, the first to arrive takes the first free desk, a flex office and open space logic“. Certainly a rationalization of spaces, but that reassures no one.
Passive intellectual resistance
And the discreet but regular revolt is making itself heard. Or rather see: “There are lots of posters that employees are putting up everywhere to protest this move and its damage. Management goes everywhere to tear them off and the employees put them back», explains an employee to us, with supporting photos transferred.
« At first, the diversions only manifested themselves in a few alterations to the covers. But people were stung to see that management was systematically trying to let them down.»
Conclusion, the rules of the protest game have changed and creativity has gone up a notch. And if we still had some reservations about the way or some doubts about the message, this time, we went for it cheerfully.
Thus T'Choupi as well as The Little Hens or Denis la malice even the Pokemon flourished in the corridors, half-sarcastic, half-disappointed, replaced as quickly as they disappeared. To this day, no one knows what we will find in the offices when we return from the weekend: tired of war, management would have stopped hunting for posters at the end of the week.
Spontaneously push towards the exit?
It is not so much that employees refuse any form of flexibility – the arrival of teleworking has led to offices being quite sparsely populated on certain days. “The problem lies in the negation of the profession – if we take the case of the School sector for example, where we need documents, storage, archiving. »
The discontent has gone beyond the walls of 92 to reach the press: “Some even wonder if it is not on purpose to “naturally” make people leave.» We hope for details from Editis soon.
Still, a best-of must be distributed to the teams, like a samizdat – and perhaps as much by email as secretly. And all carried by the company slogan. ActuaLitté found them by hacking the printer:
Photo credits: various
By Nicolas Gary
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