[Quality of work life: How, why?]

The world of health, and our health care institutions in particular, are in crisis: budget deficit, absenteeism and increased resignation rate, lack of attractiveness. Cancer is one of the most at-risk specialties with a high rate of burn-out. It therefore, seemed interesting to summarize what needs to be known about burn-out, the quality of life at work, its determinants and its consequences. Thus, we will see the importance of organizational and managerial factors and proximity management in the quality of life at work of a team. In the second part, we will target the QWL of cancer caregivers and recall the main results of a survey on the QWL of cancer doctors in France which finds certain determinants and some consequences previously mentioned. We will conclude with advice to preserve its QWL. The situation is becoming critical, and it is high time to reactivate a national strategy on occupational health for caregivers with an extensive training program for health managers.