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Office life

Why do we get the munchies at work?

When you’re existentially peckish

Communication

Test. What kind of talker are you?

Silence, we’re chatting!

Discernment

Is self-deception really so bad?

Stop kidding yourself!

Meaning

Keep calm and do your job

In 2024, let’s get a grip on this absurd world!

Work-life

“We want labour, but without caring much for the labourer”

Migrant work explained by sociologist Daniel Veron

Marketing

Authentically yours

Can we really be asked to be ourselves?

Motivation

A small treatise on big sighs

Exhalations which betray you

Failure

Defeat or the refusal of reality

How France’s rugby woes gave us double vision

Brain

Gifted, hypersensitive… what kind of neuro-atypical are you?

The great diagnosis free-for-all

Inequalities

Can a billionaire still do good?

Why Bernard Arnault’s philanthropy backfired

Change

The case for ordinary life

Why you should learn to love your daily routine

Environment

Less growth, more gain. Learning to relinquish

Interview with Alexandre Monnin

Remote work

My theatrical coworking journey

Remote work at 300 km per hour

Consumption

Greedflation

When producers pick our pockets

Pressure

Test. How do you react to emergencies?

Rejoice or liquify?

Office life

When the cat snoozes, the mice stare…

The day my boss fell asleep

Decision-making

Why do we dream of other lives?

Athénaïs Gagey shares her perspective

Health

The mental health conundrum

Should it really be a corporate responsibility?

Advertising

Disinfluence

When mistrust meets influence

Skills

Are you too kind?

When flexibility becomes a weakness

Environment

The carbon tax: a moral emergency?

Interview with economist Christian Gollier

Brain

Test: what is your dark side?

What comes out when you’re in a bad mood?

Collaboration

Are you in a “work couple” without knowing it?

Those inseparable duos at work

Meaning

Reconnect with yourself? Bad idea!

When introspection leads nowhere

Remote work

Will anyone know I’m on strike?

The remote worker’s conundrum

Skills

Test: how do you take criticism?

Medieval fortress of sandcastle?

Communication

Happy birthday SMS!

But have we all lost our tongue?

Workplace

Whose desk is that, under the stairs?

The office plan puzzle

Authority

Have we outgrown hierarchy?

When employees rise up

Remuneration

Employee dividend: anatomy of a con

How to fight for the icing when you’re deprived of the cake

Office life

A touch of frost: a remedy for acceleration?

Could a colder workplace benefit the company?

Economy

“The idea of green growth is based on false hopes”

Timothée Parrique talks to us about degrowth

Innovation

Demystifying technology

We haven’t lost control yet

Office life

What do you mean, “not having lunch”?

The downside of intermittent fasting

Environment

“You’re vegan, but you fly?”

A Nietzschean plea against the tyranny of coherence

Inequalities

Fatphobia at work

The “excess pounds” that weigh down a career

Authority

The queen, or neutrality crowned

Must we stop leading, to be loved?

Consumption

Shrinkflation

Is my cheese getting smaller or am I getting bigger?

Environment

Greenflation

The real cost of energy transition

Decision-making

How not to regret our choices?

If I were a carpenter…

Health

Another slice of CBD pizza?

The intemperate’s new clothes

Performance

What if we (finally) got rid of productivity?

Interview with Laëtitia Vitaud

Creativity

The mystery of sudoku

What’s the point?

Inequalities

Should executive pay be capped?

FOR / AGAINST – Cécile Renouard VS Jean-Édouard Colliard

Work-life

The four-day week: good or bad idea?

Why less could be more

Office life

Test: Vigilante or mediator?

How do you manage conflicts in business?

livreur

Consumption

The age of idleness

The dark side of home delivery

Strategy

“Every company has a geopolitical responsibility”

Interview with Nathalie Belhoste

économistes

Women/Men

Mansplaining alert

Study reveals the sexism of economists

Eltchaninoff

Strategy

“Putin is ready for the most brutal confrontation with the West”

Interview with Michel Eltchaninoff

old

Management

Can our elders be entrusted to private companies?

A closer look at France’s retirement homes scandal

biais cognitifs

Brain

What do you know about cognitive biases?

Discover your most common mistakes by taking our test

Innovation

What's your relationship to technology?

Elyze

Politics

Für Elyze

The risks of electoral Tinder

Brexit

Politics

Brexit: so when will they fall?

Why the French want the English to fail

Environment

Going green: moralise to mobilise?

Of the ethical value of desire

Environment

Is “green hydrogen” the way forward?

For/Against: Patrice Geoffron / Nicolas Mazzucchi

Women/Men

The cost of love

Should you dump your boyfriend for your career?

Responsibility

Climate: who should foot the bill?

COP26 and its philosophical quandaries

Responsibility

Who is to blame for the Alec Baldwin shooting?

The unbearable lightness of procedures

Confidence

Who dares wins

From fear of failure to artistic instinct

Values

Purpose washing

“Do as I say, not as I do”

Confidence

Aim for the stars

Is ambition a good thing?

Ethics

Diversity for dummies (2/3)

“Me, racist?”

Values

Optimism

Can’t wait for tomorrow?

Ethics

Diversity for dummies (1/3)

“Me, racist?”

Environment

Doughnut economics

A picture worth a thousand words

Consumption

A little sparkle, please

What’s shopping without social life?

Communication

Our tips for teleworkers (3): stay connected!

During lockdown, reinvent your professional relationships

Productivity

Our tips for teleworkers (1): get into the rhythm!

A philosophical guide to working from home

Communication

Have pity on phonophobes!

Why young workers hate phone calls

Reputation

Cancel culture

Who shall I boycott today?

Creativity

Patience

When time takes time

Generations

“Ok Boomer”

What happened to “respect your elders”?