In just a few weeks, the health crisis demonstrated during the first confinement the ability of many employees to work from their homes.
Over the days then, teleconferencing systems have become the key to the advent of teleworking.
In a new context of generalized remote working which is tending to become the norm, it can be tempting to ask your teams outside working hours.
A point of balance
The right to disconnect is not new, however it remains little or even poorly understood in the context of risk mapping in companies.
Reconciling disconnection and teleworking is not easy.
The challenge for companies is to identify a point of balance between the limitation of working time and a certain autonomy in the organization, more or less important according to the professions and the positions of the employees.
Toddlers in full teleconference
The employee working from home has a right to disconnect.
The employer must ensure this as part of its obligation to ensure employee safety and protection.
He must in particular pay attention to the mental load, damaged when the professional field invades personal space.
Sudden appearance of toddlers in full teleconference, mixing of clothes, forgetting of the camera on… These situations have multiplied.
However, the employer must not opt for the easy solution which would consist in standardizing the rules and thus losing all the advantages of remote work, as can be the black-out systems of messaging from a certain time.
Psychosocial risks
In the long term, solutions, adapted both to the profile of the company and its staff and to emergency situations, must be identified.
Managers have an important responsibility on this subject and are on the “front line”, particularly in terms of psychosocial risk factors.
It should therefore be emphasized that the latter can be exacerbated in the context of teleworking and can thus lead to easier questioning of the employer's responsibility.
It is up to them to train themselves to respond to these new challenges of “remote” management to deal with current emergencies and anticipate situations outside of a health crisis.
We can also guarantee that the current negotiations provide an appropriate framework for practices.
