In San Francisco, Singapore or Paris, 1 in 4 people want to telecommute full time

The Covid-19 crisis has revolutionized working methods and in San Francisco as in Amsterdam, London, Singapore or Paris, many workers are projecting themselves into a future where they will work more from home, but without losing contact with the company, according to an international survey presented Tuesday.

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This survey was carried out for Actineo, an observatory for the quality of life at work created in 2005 by the Ameublement Français in these five large metropolises or groups of agglomerations: Greater Paris (12 million people), Greater London (9.3 million people), Amsterdam-Rotterdam-The Hague (7.5 million people), San Francisco-Seattle (11.2 million people) and Singapore (5.7 million people) with around 3,000 employees and self-employed in January and February, representative of the different sectors of activity, age groups and company sizes.

For 85% of those questioned, working at home will become more and more an integral part of working life in the future, whether or not they have previous experience, and the ideal would be "

two or three days a week

".

Around 24% of them even want to work full time from their home, a way of working that they consider “

well perceived and encouraged

” by their employer at 67% (Paris 59%), and even “

very encouraged

” according to 24% of respondents (San Francisco / Seattle 32%).

Not enough space at home

The main obstacles to teleworking, in addition to unsuitable tasks (26%), are an employer that would be unfavorable to it for 29% of respondents (Paris 36%, Singapore 36%).

Others do not wish to use telework to put an end to the porosity of private / professional life and the interference of their professional life in their private sphere (22%, 27% among 19-29 year olds).

Most of those interviewed admit that they struggle to maintain a work-life balance or do not have adequate equipment or sufficient space at home.

While 83% of respondents worked from home at least one day a week during the Covid-19 health crisis compared to 21% before, many still wish to continue coming to the office for informal exchanges with colleagues and conviviality (41% ) or to benefit from a space reserved for work that clearly separates from private life (39% on average, San Francisco / Seattle 47%, Singapore 45%).

On average, respondents work from home one day more than before the health crisis.

Note the case of London, which went from 2.1 to 3.6 days of telework per week.

Now 42% of Londoners work from home for five full days, according to the survey.

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More than half of the workers surveyed (56%) believe that tomorrow, the way of working and the workspace "

will be a little different

". About 18% think they will return to exactly "

what they were before

" the health crisis (especially in San Francisco / Seattle), and 20% that the world of work "

will be radically different

" (especially in London).