Conducted among 1,000 French employees aged 18 to 65, the survey conducted last January by Randstad Wormitor has just delivered its results. The result ? One out of two French employees would be ready to leave the country to fill the desired position if they are established abroad.
More specifically, 18% of respondents would leave France without hesitation, while a third (32%) would do so willingly. But conversely, the idea of crossing borders to find the “right job” leaves the other half of the participants in the survey unmoved. A result that François Béharel, president of the Randstad France group and member of the board of directors of Randstad Holding, interprets as being caused by “barriers – linguistic, cultural, regulatory, etc. - [which] appear [as being] still too important in the eyes of European employees for professional mobility to become a reality in Europe”. On the other hand, the study reveals that it is in India and Mexico that employees would be the most numerous (85% for each of these two countries) to take the plunge if a professional opportunity abroad presented itself.
According to the register of French people established outside France by the Quai d'Orsay, France had 1.7 million expatriates in 2015. A figure up 2% over one year, and 4.14% over two years. And according to a study conducted by INSEE on migratory flows in France, the number of French people who emigrated between 2006 and 2016 even increased by 5.2% on average per year over this period.
And you, would you?
