If he was popular at the end of confinement with the French, it is less true today. An Odoxa survey for France Info , published this Thursday, October 8, reveals that only one in seven French people is currently teleworking, or around 14%.During confinement
, teleworking concerned 24% of workers. Yet the government encourages recourse teleworking ” as much as possible ” for companies and employees. The Minister of Labor repeated it on Monday, October 5, 2020. Elisabeth Borne invited workers « in enhanced and maximum alert zones to find the organizations adapted to each company and thus to limit social interactions, whether in the workplace or on public transport. “
All this is also stipulated in the health protocol updated on September 17.
In a heightened and maximum alert zone, employers and employees must, as much as possible, resort to teleworking. It is a collective effort requested of companies but an effort necessary to reduce the circulation of the virus.@pietraszewski_l
https://t.co/UczPlVvlHa — Elisabeth BORNE (@Elisabeth_Borne)
October 5, 2020 For example, Aurélien Rousseau, director of the Regional Health Agency (ARS) of Île-de-France announced on Monday that « 26% of outbreaks of contamination were in the workplace»
, just behind schools and universities. According to the Odoxa survey, 30% of workers in Île-de-France
Yet the incentive is not enough. How to explain it?
“We must bend the rules” One of the difficulties of setting up teleworking, is that the employer cannot impose it on his employee
: this decision must be the result of an agreement between the two parties. This agreement is formalized by written or oral, and the refusal of teleworking on the part of an employee cannot be a reason for termination of the contract. Why is the state not changing this? “It would be unconstitutional, advances Laurent Parras, lawyer specializing in labor law.
This would be a disproportionate infringement, in particular on the freedom to undertake. “ For him, it is also a legacy of history.
“Before the Industrial Revolution, many people worked at home, then there was industrialization, this physical presence in the company was required of the employee. All the rules were created on the basis of this physical presence, so our Labor Code is unsuitable for this kind of situation. We have to bend the rules. “
“There is a doubt about the productivity of employees”
What about force majeure such as an epidemic? There, the employer can set up teleworking without the employee’s agreement, in accordance with article L 1222-11 of the Labor Code. The argument of the continuity of the activity of the company is put forward as well as the protection of the employees. The employer must still be willing to rely on this text. Which is not really the case. For Laurent Parras, “They don’t do it because, for them, it’s not in their interests. ” If there is no mistrust of the employer vis-à-vis the employee, according to him, there is
“A doubt about its productivity. The boss said to himself: “I prefer to have my employee at home, he will be more productive, he will not pick up his son from school or do his yoga in the morning, etc.” For me this is a mistake. Because, even if the employee is in his pajamas at home, he can be productive. ” Read also:
POINT OF VIEW. Covid-19 and the company: what if managers finally change their practices? The question of surveillance is also an issue in the debate on teleworking. “The boss will say to himself that he can better supervise his employee in his premises, in reality it is false, Laurent Parras advances.
It is the result that you bring that testifies whether you have worked or not. “
Employees who “work more from telework” For Nolwenn Anier, PhD in psychology and R & D consultant at Pseeko,
“This representation was true before confinement. But since then, many studies have been published showing that the employee tended to work more telework. There may still be reluctance on the side of employers, but one of the positive effects of confinement has been to reassure them about the productivity of their teleworking employees. ” But for Laurent Parras, attitudes remain to be corrected on the side of employees: “Some people imagine that they are not really at work while being teleworked. We have all heard someone say “no, I’m quiet Monday I’m teleworking”, when no, you are not at all quiet. You’re supposed to be working. ” For him,
“Mentalities must change on both sides, have more confidence on the one hand, and that everyone considers themselves at work, teleworking. “
“Establish satisfactory social relations” Apart from the purely productive aspect, work is above all a place of sociability. “The Covid has however shown that, for all the professions concerned, going to the office is no longer an obligation. We can work from anywhere specifies Nolwenn Anier.
Despite everything, we still want to go to the workplace because it meets the needs to establish satisfactory social relations. ” Even if many virtual tools allow you to stay in touch with colleagues, exchanges inevitably lose quality and spontaneity.
“By teleworking, we risk isolation. And, during a stressful time like right now, it’s quite important to feel the support of your colleagues and your company. Conversely, it is difficult to convey this kind of thing through virtual means of communication. ” Read also: ? Teleworking: will we last a long time by dint of no longer seeing anyone “in real life”?
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The fear of Covid-19 is less strongThe health protocol implemented in companies from the 1 is
September, in particular with the compulsory wearing of a mask in shared spaces, makes the workspace safer in the eyes of the employer and the employee. And during confinement, travel was more than limited. Teleworking has therefore become more easily and naturally.
What also changes the situation is the fear of French people vis-à-vis the coronavirus. Also according to this Odoxa survey, 54% of French people are worried about being contaminated by Covid-19 at their workplace, against 71% in April. For Nolwenn Anier, “Some people do sort things out and the need for sociability takes over a little over people who are not at risk or for whom the stress of the virus is not too high. It is a risk that we accept to take because,on the contrary
, it allows us to meet needs that are very important for our psychological health and well-being. ” The representation of the virus has also changed compared to the spring. “He is perceived as better controlled”,
considers PhD in psychology and R & D consultant at Pseeko. The numbers are also different from the spring. If the number of positive cases has exploded every day since mid-September, the number of deaths is much lower than in the spring, especially on the black day ofWednesday April 15 during which 1,438 deaths had been recorded
. Since the beginning of September, the highest figure has been 154 deaths in one day.
– Survey carried out from September 7 to 11, 2020 with a sample of 3,000 people, representative of the French population aged over 18, interviewed online.
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