Office notebook. Sometimes teleworking is lifesaving, but it all depends on the mode of organization which more or less reduces the risk of the spread of Covid-19 in the company. This is what the CNRS has proven by building a statistical model based on the characteristics of the virus’ circulation: duration of infection, duration of incubation, etc. “Our model made it possible for each infected person to observe how much they risked infecting colleagues depending on the way teleworking is organized”, explains Simon Maurras, co-author of the study “Mitigating COVID-19 outbreaks in workplaces and schools by hybrid telecommuting”, published Thursday, August 26.
From the generalization of remote work to successive deconfinements, companies have continued to improve the health security of their employees. Once the distancing measures had been established, they adapted the teleworking organizations to their needs, taking into account the more or less eligible professions, the control of the position and the digital environment, and obviously the need to ensure business continuity.
This has sometimes produced systems of employee rotation, with the sharing of teams into two distinct groups A and B which follow one another on a daily or weekly basis, as in industry at Rémy-Cointreau for example; sometimes systems where the whole team meets regularly, alternating “on” periods of normal work interactions with “off” periods in 100% teleworking, the now famous “full remote” (systematic teleworking).
Most effective strategies
“All Nespresso France employees are present two days a week all together and this until the 1ster October. The other three days are teleworking », thus indicates the HRD Hélène Gemähling. The managers’ concern is that everyone crosses paths in order to preserve team cohesion, which is damaged by isolation at home. In both cases, the time spent in the workplace is shared, but in rotation, the employee only meets half of the people, while in alternation “on-off”, he contacts all his colleagues.
The conclusions of the CNRS study reveal that the most effective strategies to limit the spread are in decreasing order: the rotation of the teams week by week, the rotation day by day, the on-off week by week and the on-off day by day.
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