2023-08-17 15:53:35
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The culture of teleworking is struggling to establish itself in France. According to a study conducted by the German economic institute Ifo and Econpol Europe* and relayed by The echoes, French workers are among those who make the least use of remote work among their counterparts in 34 industrialized countries. With only 0.6 days of teleworking per week, France is below the European average (0.8), but also behind the world average (0.9).
And is far ahead of the Anglo-Saxon countries, where telework is much more established. Thus, in the United States, employees work remotely 1.4 days a week. A figure very slightly lower than that of the United Kingdom (1.5). Canada stands at the top of this ranking with an average of 1.7 days of teleworking per week.
Conversely, at the bottom of the ranking, we find Greece and Japan (0.5) but also South Korea, obviously not very adept at this mode of operation with only 0.4 days of telework per week. But these three countries are the only ones to do less well (or better, it depends) than France.
French employers remain wary
And French employees are also among those who demand the least telework from their employer. On average, they would like to reach 1.4 days of remote work, as in the United States… where, as in many Anglo-Saxon countries, employees would like to telework a little more than two days a week.
If the French appear more reluctant than their counterparts to the idea of increasing their telework time, it is because their employers continue to show a certain mistrust of this mode of operation. The latter believe that it would not promote communication or the performance of team tasks. On the side of employees demanding more remote work, the emphasis is rather on the time savings that this would generate, mainly linked to the abolition of the home-work journey.
The Ifo and Econpol Europe study also cites flexible working hours and savings on food and fuel costs as the main arguments of telework advocates. However, 62% of workers surveyed cite socializing with colleagues as one of the main advantages of face-to-face work, which also provides a separation between personal and professional life for 43% of respondents. Last July, another OECD study, relayed by BFM TVindicated that the productivity of employees in telework tends to increase during the first days before gradually declining.
*This study was conducted with a panel of 42,426 employees aged 20 to 64 across 34 countries around the world.
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