In September, Amazon announced a radical end to remote work. In France, some examples of decline are emerging that reveal the tension between entrepreneurs for whom “Teleworking would harm team cohesion, productivity and creativity, without there being any documented study at a macroeconomic level”and employees who praise “gain autonomy and quality of life at work”.
In these terms, Laurent Cappelletti, professor of management sciences at the National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts, began the RH meetings, the monthly current meeting on management, created by the world and organized in collaboration with the Association for Executive Employment (APEC) and the National Association of Human Resources Directors (ANDRH), which were held in Bordeaux on Thursday, November 21.
“There is no turning back. It has become a structural component of the organization of work.” recalls Valérie Fenaux, APEC delegate in New Aquitaine. The organization surveyed executives in March: two-thirds of them have at least one day a week, a quarter more than two days and 45% would be willing to change companies if their management returned to remote work.
Having made this observation, can companies return to what affected workers consider a “A very strong new social achievement” ? These are the words of Marion Haramburu, director of human resources (HR) at Ubisoft, who speaks with knowledge of the facts: in October, after announcing the return of the teams three days a week to the site, the video game publisher saw the birth of a unprecedented strike. “Most teams do pure creation, the question arose of strengthening creativity, of recreating the collective. But this was poorly received, the pace is high to move even for a day. »
Letters and agreements
Coming out of Covid, some companies may have been caught by going too far: “Teleworking has allowed new forms of organization, but we had plenty of them after the health crisis. “We open the floodgates and come to regulate it.”summarizes Audrey Guidez, president of ANDRH Nouvelle-Aquitaine and director of information and human resources at France Télévisions.
Supervision through statutes and agreements is the first step to regulate teleworking. “The volume is validated since Covid, one day per week for those in contact with the field, two for support functions, but the modalities came laterexplains Aurélie Planet, RRH of the Gironde Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI). Our first agreement was not suitable for all professions, now the days are no longer necessarily fixed. Instead, it is prohibited during school holidays, upon returning or just before the holidays. »
You have 51.12% of this article left to read. The rest is reserved for subscribers.
