What will happen in the office with the bounce of the Delta variant?
Canteen discussion topic for employees who have already returned, anxiety for vacationers about to return.
The "return on site", for those accustomed to teleworking during the health crisis, is today at the heart of the concerns.
According to our information, if the date has not yet been fixed, a meeting will take place at the end of August-beginning of September at the Ministry of Labor with the social partners to decide how to change the rules.
With three options on the table.
The first: the government is completely letting go of business.
The second: the last health protocol established in July is extended with the implicit recommendation of Minister Élisabeth Borne to do at least two days of telework per week.
Finally, the last option under study: the rules are again hardened with a clear injunction to put all employees whose tasks allow it in telework, for at least three days, or even more.
"We will determine ourselves according to health indicators," said the ministry.
"The 100% return on site seems to be compromised"
“We have bilateral talks with the Prime Minister on September 1 and 2, which have no agenda.
Even there, everything can be upset at the option of the variants.
This is the general situation for this return to school.
Nothing is excluded!
»Says Yves Veyrier, from Force Ouvrière.
In companies, HR departments are also on hold.
And speculations have already started on the summer map of the variant, the bright red printed for several weeks in the holiday areas located in the south which could rise, with the migration of the end of the holidays, to the large metropolises.
"The return 100% on site, for those who had considered it, seems to be compromised," says Audrey Richard, president of ANDRH, the National Association of Human Resources Directors, who nevertheless wants to be cautious. “Obviously, we are awaiting the government's recommendations, but we are preparing. We thought we were back to a normal situation. Given the context, we will be in the adaptation! "
