What I do
I am a writer and speaker about the future of work with a feminist perspective.
After 10 years of teaching English and American studies in France, I switched to the world of Human Resources. For 10 years now I have been working with clients on how organisations, management, work space, and social protection are impacted by demographic trends, technological change, the unbundling of jobs and the empowerment of freelancers. I believe that the values of craftsmanship (autonomy, creativity, responsibility) will emancipate workers and help companies create more value.
I also believe that the legacy of a historic gendered division of labour still shapes today’s world of work: women’s work, whether paid or unpaid, is valued less, even though there would be no productivity without the largely female labour of care and support that makes makes ALL work possible.
Demographic trends are the most underestimated yet impactful force shaping the future of work. Ageing forces us to rethink work in profound ways: industrial work was historically designed for men with someone else at home to take care of the family. But as the workforce gets older there will be more caregivers — meaning less availability for paid work and fewer available workers overall. This calls for smarter, more inclusive ways of recruiting, developing, and valuing talent across generations.
I take a sceptical view of AI in the future of work. Productivity gains remain modest, while rising energy use could have stagflationary effects. AI fuels a battle of skills: it wipes out the lower rungs, making expertise more valuable — yet at the same time it devalues expertise by boosting less-qualified workers. Both forces coexist. Today’s AI boom may be a bubble — which should be met with curiosity, but also healthy scepticism.
The largest share of my work — hundreds of articles, videos, and ebooks — has been published with Welcome to the Jungle.
I write 2 newsletters: Laetitia@Work (in English) and Nouveau Départ (in French). Nouveau Départ also includes a podcast, with hundreds of episodes published to date.
Publications
In addition to my newsletters Laetitia@Work (in English) and Nouveau Départ, I have also published several books.
On 2 October 2025, my new book L’atout âge. 64 clés pour transformer la diversité générationnelle en force 🇫🇷 will be published by Eyrolles. It explores how demographic change is reshaping the workplace and challenges us to rethink our relationship with age. Despite widespread ageism, which undervalues both young and older workers, the reality is that by 2050 one in three workers will be over 50, and careers will be increasingly diverse and non-linear. This book offers 64 concrete strategies to recruit, engage, and value talent across generations, helping organisations build smarter, more inclusive, and more resilient multigenerational teams.
In 2022, my book En finir avec la productivité. Critique féministe d’une notion phare de l’économie et du travail was published with Payot 🇫🇷
“The way it is measured, productivity ignores so many things... An hour of human work is more or less productive depending on essential factors (being well nourished, being in good physical and psychological health), which themselves require work. Just as GDP (gross domestic product) ignores negative externalities such as pollution and exploitation, productivity is a blind indicator that ignores power relations and networks of relationships.”
I also wrote Welcome to the Jungle, 100 idées innovantes pour recruter des talents et les faire grandir (Vuibert) 🇫🇷 together with Welcome to the Jungle’s CEO Jérémy Clédat. It's about innovative HR practices pertaining to onboarding, recruiting, sourcing talent, employer branding developing talent, work space. It is composed of 100 short chapters and designed to help HR professionals make their HR departments fit for the 21st century.
Du Labeur à l’ouvrage (🇫🇷) was published in 2019 (Calmann-Lévy). The book (whose title in English could be From Labour to Work or From Graft to Craft) deals with the unbundling of jobs and the future of work. As 20th-century institutions like scientific management, social protection and labour unions are being dismantled, workers need to invent a new “bundle” around the values of craftsmanship. Indeed the end of work is nowhere in sight: the future of work is in proximity services, care, empathy and traditionally female activities. The challenges will be to measure value differently and make the future of work inclusive and sustainable.
More about me
Multiculti
I was educated in France but I have a German mother. After nearly 35 years of living in Paris, I longed for a new cultural challenge. So I moved to London with my family and we lived there for 5 years. Then, from 2020 to 2024, we lived in Munich, Germany. In August 2024, we moved back to Paris.
After nearly 10 years of life abroad, I finally understood how completely French I am! 🥖 As Erin Meyer wrote, “When you are in and of a culture—as fish are in and of water—it is often difficult or even impossible to see that culture. Often people who have spent their lives living in one culture see only regional and individual differences and therefore conclude, ‘My national culture does not have a clear character’.”
Miscellaneous
I’m a black belt 2d dan in jujitsu, love all martial arts and encourage all women to experience the joys of finding their inner warrior! Also a yoga enthusiast, I enjoy doing inversions and arm balances. With jujitsu and yoga I’ve learned to fall and get back up, and go upside down. While in Bavaria, I discovered the joy that comes with hiking in the mountains ⛰️
Education
HEC Paris Degree in Business
I obtained a master’s degree in "Management of Art and Culture" at HEC, a leading French Business School where I studied from 1998 to 2002.
Université Paris III "Sorbonne Nouvelle"
I obtained the Agrégation d'anglais in 2006. The "Agrégation" is a demanding civil service competitive examination for senior teaching positions in France’s public education system. I chose a specialisation in “American civilisation".
Contact
Wearing a Kimono
2nd dan in 2010
With Jeremy Clédat, CEO of Welcome to the Jungle, my co-author.