In the business world of the twenty-first century, absenteeism due to mental illness and related to work continue to grow, millennials and other new generations refuse to accept the pressures of the traditional work place and demand respect and decency in their work environment. We do not see much success in the responses to the current de-huminization of employees in business or in society. Crowds demonstrate in the streets more and more violently. Entire classes of populations feel disenfranchised, in particular after a loss of work or of entire industries. Deaths by suicide and drug overdose are skyrocketing in the USA.

With a long managerial experience in a large service company, but also his expertise as a logotherapist, Henri Gillet attributes this discomfort to the demeaning representation of the human being that business conveys and which poisons the daily life of all collaborators.

The author invites us to take a detour through Viktor Frankl's logotherapy and other discoveries in existentialist analysis to understand that everyone absolutely needs to find a meaning in their life, including their professional life. Addressing the current situation will involve new behaviors at work, but also another type of organization.