“A shock and a paradigm shift”. This is how telework is defined, whose blueprint to regulate it is approved this week in the Council of Ministers, the dean of the Faculty of Labor and Social Sciences of the University of Zaragoza. Ruth Vallejo
Telework affects more Aragonese every day. Right now, 12.5 of the total workers in Aragon do it from home, but the trend goes on and on. Only in the last year it has more than doubled: from 28,000 to about 71,000 Aragonese, an increase of 145%, especially in the middle age group from 25 to 45, and especially among women. But this is not without risks; for example, “the loss of physical contact with the company,” according to Vallejo. Y, Who bears the expenses? This is one of the aspects that remains to determine the negotiation of the “collective agreements of each sector”, according to this specialist.
Will it stop depopulation?
The director of the depopulation chair at the University of Zaragoza Luis Antonio Saez- talks about “hybrid form”. “We will combine, says this professor, the rural and the urban because according to Saez” they are not opposite but complementary worlds. “And that change, which is already being detected in the increase in registrations in places like Ayerbe, is not only important in terms of quantity but also for something much more important. According to Luis Antonio Saez, you can have a “lever effect, of commitment and revitalization of the rural environment “
Situation in Aragon
The government of the community is negotiating with the unions the order that has to regulate telework in the administration of our community. The director general of public function of the DGA, Esteban del Ruste, already made it clear before the summer in the Cortes what his bet is: “that it be one more tool now and when normality returns.” In del Ruste’s opinion, it is an opportunity, even “to improve productivity, doing the same job in less time. “
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