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Complément d’enquête is a weekly program on France 2.

Julien Daguerre reports: They’re in their thirties, they’ve attended top business or engineering schools, they’re executives in communications, marketing or finance… They should be on the “right track”, and yet some of them have doubts, struggling to find meaning in their work. Does their job serve a purpose? The permanent contract and the salary are no longer enough for this young generation, who also want to be useful. Meet these new employees in the throes of existential doubt.
According to a recent survey, 12% of French employees think they have a “bullshit job”, as the American researcher David Graeber theorized. What can we say to this disenchanted generation, who earn a good living but die of boredom at work? Worried about losing their troops, some managers are calling in “poetic officers”. Or the art of bringing poetry to a world of bullies!