Fifteen years separate the first alert from the first synthesis. This page sets out the milestones — each anchored to a dated, published document: statistical studies, books, endorsements, third-party recognitions. Nothing is asserted here that is not archived.
Workplace suffering enters the foreground of public debate; two trajectories begin to move, separately.
Workplace suffering becomes a national political issue; a commission of inquiry is set up, whose final report marks the entry of the subject into institutional debate. The work that will lead to the IBET© also begins that year.
Final report of the Commission of Inquiry on Workplace Suffering, 2008Press profile of Victor Waknine, founder of Mozart Consulting: “Working better to live better”.
A. Clozel, 2009Bruno Brochenin publishes Où va l'entreprise ? Organisation et dérives (Where is the corporate model going? Organisation and drifts): a diagnosis of organisational logics and their effects on work.
Eska Editions, 2010Engagement becomes measurable on real data; the two trajectories cross for the first time.
First edition of the national IBET© study, based on official 2009 statistics (DARES, CNAMTS) covering more than 18 million employees: a global index of 0.77 and the founding equation — engagement and disengagement complement each other to unity.
Study report, Mozart Consulting, September 2011 — annual study sinceWhite paper “Workplace health: an economic approach to well-being”, with the social protection group APICIL — the start of a partnership that continues from edition to edition.
APICIL press file, September 2011Four articles by Bruno Brochenin in Qualitique Magazine — psychosocial risks, cindynics applied to the enterprise, critique of change management. The April 2012 article already refers to the work of Mozart Consulting: the convergence is documented.
Qualitique No. 222, 225, 229 and 233Victor Waknine formalises the notion of goodwill social© in the journal Transversus.
Transversus No. 5, 2013The IBET© is certified as “social innovation” by the global competitiveness cluster Finance Innovation.
Certification of 9 April 2014, attestation of 23 May 2014The material of the books is built in the training room; the measure gains recognition from third parties of every kind — the financial profession, think tanks, academia.
Design of the training course “The adventures of a collaborative manager”, deployed in companies ever since: the situations and models of the future books are tested against real managers before becoming chapters.
Training materials, 2014-2016The Social Advisor Index© quantifies the thirty-five CSR criteria of the Grenelle II law for the CAC 40 companies, establishing that those with the most mature CSR governance show operating profitability 12% above the median — ten years before the CSRD.
Social Advisor communiqué, 2016; “Experts' perspectives” booklet, May 2016The joint white paper of the national associations of finance directors (DFCG) and HR directors (ANDRH) recommends deploying IBET© for the valuation of intangible capital. The same year, a Terra Nova note cites a company-level agreement that had established the index as a conventional indicator.
DFCG/ANDRH white paper, September 2017; Terra Nova, 2017Bruno Brochenin publishes L'engagement collectif dans l'entreprise, part magique de la performance (Corporate collective engagement, the magical share of performance): the magic circle model.
L'Harmattan, 2019 — IBET© booklet with APICIL the same yearA university dissertation takes IBET© as its subject: the approach itself becomes an academic object.
Paris 2 University, May 2021; MagRH No. 14, September 2021Sustainability reporting becomes a European obligation: regulation catches up with a measure that had been waiting for it.
The national economic press picks up the annual study.
Les Echos, 5 December 2022The 2024 edition of the national study puts the cost of disengagement at €14,840 per employee per year — about 27% of value added.
IBET© communiqué, 29 October 2024Bruno Brochenin publishes Indice de bien-être au travail : on compte tout sauf ce qui compte (Well-being at work index: we count everything except what counts), with a preface by Victor Waknine: the theoretical foundations of the measure.
L'Harmattan, 2024Victor Waknine is the “featured witness” of the CFE-CGC magazine: recognition by a trade union representing employees.
CFE-CGC Magazine, September 2025Writing of the diptych — Les quatre postures du dialogue managérial (The four postures of managerial dialogue) and Construire l'engagement réciproque (Building reciprocal engagement) — where the fiction of Arthur embodies fifteen years of tested material.
ForthcomingEvery milestone on this page corresponds to a dated document — report, book, endorsement, article or communiqué — kept in the author's archives. Full references are available on request.