The furor around teleworking seems to have definitively come to an end more than three and a half years after its explosion during the coronavirus pandemic. According to the recent study carried out by the real estate consultancy JLL among 208 large companies from around the world, this unique period has still left its mark on the French landscape, with French employees working an average of one and a half days a week. .week remotely.
On the other hand, they remain much more attached to in-person work than their European neighbors. With 3.5 days of weekly work in the office, the French are well ahead of the weekly average of the Swiss (3 days) and are even further behind the British (2.6 days) and the Spanish (2. 5 days). This face-to-face resistance is due to several factors.
Housing costs have a significant effect
As explained to Echoes According to the director of research on new work methods at JLL, Flore Pradère, there are first of all issues of image in the face of hierarchy, but also of relationships with colleagues:
In big cities, the cost of housing also comes into play. To benefit from more spacious living space, employees will tend to move away from city centers where offices are located and will therefore opt more for teleworking. This explains why remote work is more widespread in metropolises such as London, New York or San Francisco, where real estate prices are still higher than those in Paris.
Facilitate the presence of employees in the office throughout the week
At the end of Covid-19, one of the main management issues was managing the return to site. A few months later, this gave way to the distribution of in-person days among the staff so that not all employees go to the office on the same days of the week, with Tuesdays and Thursdays being preferred, while Fridays are usually ideal. Teleworking day.
And rightly so, the installation of teleworking in company practices has meant a downward revision of the budget allocated to offices, which are now less busy during the week. Problem: this reduction in surface area is not optimal to face an influx of employees concentrated two or three days a week and accommodate them in good conditions.
Source: BFM TV
