Teleworking has almost become a barrier gesture.
And the State does not intend to be caught out, at a time when certain companies are suspected of not playing the game. "Our difficulty is that the number of days of teleworking per agent must increase," points out a senior civil servant in the cabinet of Amélie de Montchalin, the Minister of the Civil Service, but without any reduction in the quality of service.
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The week of March 8 to 12, within the scope of the State - that is to say outside local communities, but also outside the police and teachers - 54.5% of the agents were teleworked at least one day a week .
In detail, 20% even worked at home 4 days a week (compared to 11% a month ago).
However, strong disparities appear between the central administration - the ministries and their attached organizations - where 73.6% of the agents teleworked at least one day per week during the period, and the decentralized services of the State.
Thus, in the prefectures, sub-prefectures and the Direccte (Regional Directorates for Business, Competition, Consumption, Labor and Employment), among others, only 45.6% of agents worked at home. at least one day per week during the period.
"Teleworking is systematically installed in all services where it is possible," insists the ministry.
There is no longer any cultural brake on the State-employer side, but we still have to make progress.
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"The minister is your boss, no question of telling him: I don't want to"
So the public authorities are watching.
Each week, a list establishes an inventory for the decentralized services (prefectures, sub-prefectures, Direccte, etc.), with increased attention in the 16 departments subject to re-containment.
This week, eight territories have teleworking ratios below the average: Aisne (02), Hautes-Alpes (05), Alpes-Maritimes (06), Eure-et-Loir (28), Pas-de-Calais (62), Yvelines (78) and Var (83).
"In these cases, we notify the prefects that they must step up the pace," insists the same source.
The injunction, in principle, bears fruit.
“The State services have a very hierarchical organization - they are sufficiently criticized as normal… But here, in this case, it is very effective.
The minister is your boss, no question of telling him:
I don't want to,
”laughs a senior official.
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It is a fact, teleworking has progressed in the public service.
But "it is not yet sufficiently applied", regrets Luc Farre, Secretary General of Unsa-Civil Service.
“We cannot be satisfied with being good on statistics one day a week,” concedes an advisor from Amélie de Montchalin.
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What are the brakes still today?
“Managers find it difficult to trust agents, points out Luc Farre.
The prefects themselves are in the habit of asking people to be physically present on site.
"For the union official, the solution also involves training:" Civil service managers must be taught to lead teams remotely, by teleworking.
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