" You have 257 WhatsApp notifications." This Friday evening, Laurent Herlin, general manager of Savoyard cured meats Henri Raffin, concedes: "The weekend will be welcome." Like millions of French employees and business leaders, the owner of this Savoie SME sees the end of a crazy week. The one where France has switched to generalized telework.
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More precisely a part of France. Since Monday March 16, the closing date for schools and the day before virtual confinement declared by Emmanuel Macron, the world of private sector employees has been cut in three. First there are the employees - more than 660,000 - made redundant due to lack of activity; then those whose business is still operating, go out to work; finally those, millions of executives, office workers, computer scientists, accountants, salespeople or business owners confined to their homes, to work from home.
The strikes of December and January had already given some
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