Return to telework or a simple reminder of barrier gestures between employees on the sites? With the acceleration in the number of Covid-19 cases, coupled with the arrival of the new Omicron variant, feverishness is spreading to the world of work.
Should the State force companies to telework? At this time, “We are not going to set an obligation, but I invite employers to [le] to favor “, recalled, Friday November 26 on Franceinfo, the Minister of Labor, Elisabeth Borne.
She heard the pleas of Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux, the president of the Mouvement des entreprises de France (Medef), who assured, on November 23 on BFM-TV-RMC: “Business leaders must re-mobilize on teleworking, but no obligation. “” We must let the dialogue of proximity take place “, he said, recalling that many companies already had teleworking agreements and that following the Belgian example of compulsory remote work four days out of five would be ” a mistake “.
The president of the Syntec federation, Laurent Giovachini, which brings together a million jobs in digital, engineering or consulting, also believes that to counter the fifth wave, “At the current stage, we do not need ukase on teleworking”.
Unlike large companies, smaller companies are ready to support increased teleworking where possible. “In small businesses, it was with the Covid-19 that we discovered teleworking. We lived it in pain, we were not trained, we had difficulties in accessing software, we encountered illiteracy and many staff were overworking for lack of adequate housing to telework. But teleworking saved us. We are going to play the game “, assures Bernard Cohen-Hadad, president of the Confederation of small and medium-sized enterprises Paris-Ile-de-France.
“Counter-foot”
The leader of the employers’ organization thinks that “In activities compatible with remote work, companies will increase to three or four days a week. But it will depend on the ability to supply orders in this period of tight flow that is the end of the year ”. All administrative functions – orders, invoicing, payroll management – are concerned. As for tasks incompatible with remote work, companies organize the division of teams so that they do not intersect, or as little as possible.
“We also ask companies to spread the arrival times of employees, depending on the business, between 6 a.m. and 10 a.m., as they had already done in June 2020, to prevent everyone from ending up in transport at the same time “, adds Cohen-Hadad. With the arrival of the fifth wave, “What we fear the most is the return of gauges, curfews, even confinement, which cause an immediate drop in turnover and the departure of part of the purchases towards the sale from a distance “.
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