We're talking about performance, adaptation and modernity.
However, on the ground, something has gone deeply wrong at work.
This malaise is not individual. It's structural. And it deserves our attention.
There is a lot of talk about performance, growth and adaptation.
However, on the ground, one observation is repeated everywhere - among craftsmen, the self-employed and qualified employees:
⮕ work exhausts, fragments and isolates.
No more standards.
No more administration.
No more middlemen.
Less time for the job.
Less transmission.
Less sense.
And this malaise is not marginal. It is structural.
What has disappeared without us realising it
For a long time, professions were based not only on contracts or status, but also on a variety of genuine professional communities.
Structures that :
- train new entrants and apprentices
- regulated access to the profession,
- protected the quality of the work,
- limit unfair competition,
- organised the transmission over several generations.
It wasn't perfect.
But this offered a stability, a consistency, and a dignity that many people are looking for today... without finding it.
The current paradox
We have never had so much individual “freedom” on paper.
And yet :
- everyone is on their own when it comes to the market,
- everyone is trading at a loss,
- everyone is subject to rules they didn't write.
Result:
fragmented professions,
interchangeable professionals,
and crumbling quality.
A question that cannot be ignored
And if the problem wasn't the work itself...
but the gradual disappearance of organised professions?
If the future lay in modern forms of professional self-regulation,
from communities of professions capable of training, protecting and transmitting,
rather than through constant competition?
This model has existed, in other forms, at other times.
He was dismissed in the name of «modernity».
It was known as the corporatism.
Open debate, without caricature
It's not about nostalgia or withdrawal.
But a simple and very topical question:
⮕ How can we restore meaning, quality and dignity to work?
The debate deserves to be asked calmly and seriously.
Because malaise in the workplace is not a fad.
It's a signal.
What are your thoughts on this?
Reflections developed as part of the work of 🇨🇭 Souveraineté Suisse.
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