Résumé
Polycrisis refers to the simultaneous occurrence multiple crises within a society or system. This concept underscores the necessity for holistic and systemic strategies to tackle interconnected challenges and foster resilience and sustainability. Companies' responses to polycrisis can diverge significantly, depending upon their capacity to adjust to the dynamic and interconnected nature of the various crises they are facing. In order to understand whether the concept of polycrisis is already well understood and rooted in the labour market, we conducted a qualitative field survey of around forty-two individuals active in the labour market in French-speaking Switzerland in September 2023. In addition to highlighting the main recurring challenges faced by companies operating in French-speaking Switzerland, these in-depth interviews revealed a certain degree of awareness of the emergence of simultaneous crisis situations and their interconnections. The Covid health crisis, supply problems, inflationary pressures and labour market tensions have made companies aware of the need for greater discipline in risk planning, management and anticipation. Companies in French-speaking Switzerland are aware of the need to adopt more flexible and agile organisational methods in order to increase their degree of resilience. However, very few of them seem to be capable of putting in place global strategies enabling a holistic approach to the management of multiple and simultaneous risks. They only take concrete actions to respond appropriately to each of these different challenges individually. This awareness is still not being matched by concrete action.