Quando a burocracia liberal impede os pesquisadores de fazer seu trabalho. Tarefas periféricas e transbordamentos do trabalho

Abstract

This article deals with the effects of installing the organization by project during industrial research. Leaning on a survey carried out in a large French company in the energy sector, it associates interviews, observations and questionnaires,  showing how this organization of work promoted to make the functioning of organizations flexible and to relieve bureaucratic burdens, on the contrary, it profoundly transformed researchers ‘work and deceived the time devoted to carrying out “peripheral tasks” to their professional hearts. In order to continue doing, despite everything , a quality work that makes sense and in which they recognize each other, most researchers then take on themselves, and often their private time, working longer in the office, but also and, more and more, at home. These “liquid organizations” thus secrete overwork: not only do they transform the nature and causes of this bureaucratic work that proves to be more horizo ntal and decentralized than in the past, but displacing and making it unfeasible, they also change the nature of their cost, which goes from an “economic cost”, borne by the company, to a “subjective cost”, borne, this time, by employees.