Teleworking makes employees more efficient.
This is what emerges from the study published this Monday by the Sapiens Institute and highlighted by
Le Parisien
.
According to the think tank, the productivity of employees working remotely increased by 22% during the confinement episodes.
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There are many reasons.
Among them, a reduction in "
distractions and disturbances
", according to the authors, such as coffee breaks, extended lunches, multiple meetings or surrounding noise.
The travel time saved has also turned into activity time or sleep time saved, allowing employees to be in better shape.
Positive consequences on GDP
Another positive element: remote work would increase the motivation and empowerment of employees.
They also have better management of their time.
The authors of the study also think that teleworking would make it possible to resolve "
the many managerial dysfunctions
", often a source of conflict or absenteeism.
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These positive effects have had concrete economic consequences since teleworking was imposed on the French last year, assures the Sapiens institute.
By allowing companies to continue their activity with productivity gains, teleworking would have saved between 216 and 230 billion euros of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2020. The range would be between 167 and 173 billion GDP. during the first confinement, and between 49 and 57 billion during the second, in November.
Perverse effects
But beware: teleworking is not necessarily a panacea.
If it is necessary in the long term, without follow-up, it could in the long term have the opposite effect by causing a loss of productivity of up to 20%, warn the authors.
Many employees, tired of being kept away from their desk and their colleagues, report their discomfort.
A Harris Interactive survey released last month indicated an increase in feelings of isolation, stress and angst among those who telecommute.
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Aware of the problem, the government changed the corporate health protocol in January to allow those who wish to return to the office once a week.
In the meantime, the social partners have signed a national inter-professional agreement (ANI) on teleworking supposed to better regulate the practice.
But as the Minister of Labor, Élisabeth Borne insists, the still worrying epidemic situation requires more than ever the use of teleworking which would allow a 20% to 30% reduction in the risk of contamination.
Companies that do not play the game face penalties, she recalls.
Fifty-two formal notices have been issued by the Labor Inspectorate since last October, according to the Ministry of Labor.