21p.International audienceThe CERTOP's team achieved a research on executives and high skilled employees in France (in French: cadres) about their working time, their involvement in their professional life and their social temporalities characterizing their everyday life. This research has been financed by the national agency for research and carried out in seven companies and administrations. The approach is based on 100 interviews with a transcribed text corpus of 600,000 words. It is used to identify the existence of a complex ill-being at work. On the one hand, this ill-being appears around three major difficulties: stress, lack of symbolic recognition and social tensions within the company. On the other hand, this discomfort should be ...