Stress reliever: Peugeot/Citroen adopts new plans to prevent suicide
With six employee suicides in the past 18 months, PSA/Peugeot-Citroen thinks it may have a stress problem. While experts have found no direct link between the suicides and work stress, one in five PSA employees has reported feeling extreme pressure at work, and many feel that there isn't enough time in the day to get their work done. To ease some of the stress on its 114,000 employees, PSA has implemented several initiatives to help workers get relief from tension. It's is trying everything from reducing the size of manufacturing teams and keeping managers on a particular job longer to establishing a 24-hour hotline for employee counseling. PSA has taken the issue so seriously that the French automaker is going to the extraordinary step of hiring an additional 500 workers to help ease the heavy workload. With 26 new models launching in the next year, PSA workers will need all the stress management they can get. Hopefully that Citroen grille goes away with the new models, that thing stresses us out and we don't even work there.
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wrussi 11:11PM (4/01/2008)
i dont know but i dont think i'll ever kill myself because of my job if it stresses me out so much you can quit and get a new one i suppose
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Yago Bal 5:41PM (4/01/2008)
What's wrong with the grille?...
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Colin Smith 6:06PM (4/01/2008)
Nothing!
And workers need less pressure, more acknowledgement, and better pay. French workers have good holidays and other benefits, but obviously there are unseen stresses that need addressing. I reckon we all need three months, minimum, off a year. I do get twelve weeks off, plus national holidays of course, but Britain is a third world country for labour: I work nights, and we are asking for better conditions due to the escalating demands placed upon us.
Workplace stress is a reality that has to be addressed.
Jimbo 8:12PM (4/01/2008)
Don't forget that oh-so-stressful 35-hour week.
paul34 6:11PM (4/01/2008)
Wow, with a country with as generous labor laws as France, I wouldn't have imagined stress THAT serious going on. Eesh.
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Disgruntled Goat 6:18PM (4/01/2008)
I felt sorry for the man who built Peugeots until I met the man who owned one.
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Andrew 6:33PM (4/01/2008)
Like you've ever met one...
Are you American?
Seriously, they make some great cars. My next car is going to be a Renault. But I would not mind a Peugeot. Modern French cars are nice looking and good quality.
WetheSheeple 11:36PM (4/01/2008)
Loved my '82 505 Turbo Diesel. Great car
Tsunami Racer 11:39AM (4/02/2008)
Renaults aren't bad but that's cuz they're more worldly as they've learned to eat sushi from their mates at Nissan. the Cit/Poo guys are still all about the silly cheese and snails and thus their silly looking cars.
as for stress, i'd say throw any of those snail eaters in a US work week and we'll see how many frenchman we can kill....
Peter Rockwell 6:21PM (4/01/2008)
That grille is much, much better than Audi's gaping maw!
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Duders 6:30PM (4/01/2008)
I actually love the citroen grills. One of the most attractive features of the cars to me, especially on their smaller autos.
Andrew 6:36PM (4/01/2008)
Have you ever seen it in person? Maybe we just don't like the same things.
I am European and I like it, so they are making products that work in their market. In fact I quite like French cars in general. Though I must say I am currently driving a German car.
Duders 10:15PM (4/01/2008)
We get it. You're not American. Join the other 6.3 billion people on the earth that aren't either.
omaxem 11:18PM (4/01/2008)
Oh yeah, between Citroen and Peugeot, it's Citroen that needs to revise their grilles...
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