Oct 28, 2023 18:18
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French term

les postures contemporaraines

French to English Social Sciences Human Resources
Text about HR

les enjeux RH au travail (tels que le bien-être, la santé, la diversité ou les postures contemporaines).

Would assume "posture" refers to ergonomics but addition of "contemporaines" has thrown me.

Many thanks

Discussion

Mpoma Oct 30, 2023:
Not clear On the face of it, Phil's answer seems the common-sense one.

But obviously with everyone hunched around computers, laptops and tapping away at mobiles all day long, whether in an office or WFH, *postures* in the usual Elf 'n' Safety sense are very different now to what they were even 10 years ago. And the thing is that HR people do indeed have health and safety as one of their main areas of responsibility. So it seems possibly ambiguous to me, although strange: in the sense that there are still people operating forklifts and stacking bails of hay on to combine 'arvesters, whose postures can't really be described as "contemporary" but still presumably matter.

Actually I don't think that latter point matters: it may be that postures contemporaines just means "postures (of all kinds) as we see them currently in the workplace".

Proposed translations

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contemporary attitudes/approaches/issues/strategies

Or anything along those lines.

http://www.wordreference.com/fren/posture

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Note added at 19 hrs (2023-10-29 13:54:04 GMT)
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Or outlooks, perspectives.

...un prétexte idéal pour amorcer un pas de coté par rapport à ces postures contemporaines du monde
http://biblio.brussels/notices/nature-en-crise
Peer comment(s):

agree SafeTex
5 hrs
neutral abe(L)solano : thinking it closely, just before posture they mention bien-être & santé. It may be very well the "bad" postures adopted while looking at screens and phones.
13 hrs
I don't think that can be the meaning when it's followed by 'contemporaines'.
agree Bourth : contemporary / current-day positioning
14 hrs
agree Shelley Upton : Yes, I suspect they mean something along the lines of contemporary approaches to work/life balance.
1 day 15 hrs
neutral Thomas Miles : Totally agree with 'attitudes', but I can't see how 'issues' is a synonym.
2 days 35 mins
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Many thanks - my initial instinct, pre-posting - was along the lines of "attitudes," so I'll go with that. Thanks for contribution"
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