HAS the dawn of a new scorching summer, a difficult choice is offered to the modern hybrid worker: endure a suffocating journey by car or by public transport to afford the luxury of life-saving company air conditioning; or else, risk teleworking in less expensive accommodation. Nay, replies Pierre, your annoying colleague: “Oh, I’d be happy in my garden, maybe I’d grill during the lunch break. In addition with the trees, it’s perfect, I’m not too hot. »
For some thinkers of the company of the future, work takes shape in green, and for everyone: “greendesking” (with or without space) consists precisely of working outdoors, but in technical conditions that are not degraded nonetheless.
As the grass is always greener on our neighbour, we have to look to the Nordic and Anglo-Saxon countries to find the precursors of this fairly young trend, but especially to Quebec – which, very surprisingly, does not offer a translation to the expression in its Grand Dictionnaire terminologique. In Montreal, there is a network of forty free outdoor work spaces, with umbrellas, Internet and electricity.
Be connected to the living
There are a plethora of wacky solutions: you can, for example, rent a shared workspace, but located in the countryside, “planted” anywhere (the Germans from Outside Society offer an equipped module of 34 square meters), or choose a prefabricated individual cabin printed in 3D (invention of the American Denizen), which you can put in your garden, or failing that, in the forest.
Beyond opening our eyes to the world around us, and seeing our creativity nourished by the inspiration of the lyrical song of birds (and other chatter), “greendesking” is a quality of life tool in work (QVT). It would help reduce absenteeism and stress, show several studies: the 2015 Human Spaces report suggests that employees who do not have a window overlooking the outside and a natural environment are the most stressed. This is what psychoanalysts call “biophilia”, the fundamental need that humans have to be connected to the living. With the “greendesking”, you will understand, it is also about being connected to Wi-Fi.
The company can finance such spaces for its employees, near its premises for example. Or within them, provided that the leap forward is massive, and that it goes beyond the interior courtyard redesigned in a winter garden style (SNCF Connect offers this solution), with its five tables, only two of which are not far from a running. What about the famous vegetable garden on the rooftop (roof terrace) of a Parisian company, which offers seventeen cherry tomatoes each year to the 1,000 employees of the building?
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