Still marginal before the Covid-19 pandemic, the practice of teleworking exploded with the implementation of containment measures as of March 2020. That year, 2,760 company agreements related to teleworking were signed, against 390 in 2017, according to a Dares study. And this mode of organization continued to unfold after the crisis, since in 2021 there were 4,070 agreements, ten times more than four years earlier.
Last year, teleworking agreements even represented 67% of the agreements related to working conditions. The sectors of industry (864 agreements in 2021) and specialized, scientific and technical activities (767) are the ones that have signed the most, but the increase is also spectacular in other sectors, among which wholesale and retail trade, transport, accommodation and catering (620 agreements in 2021, +225% compared to 2019).
Large companies are no longer the only ones adopting teleworking. In fact, agreements signed in structures with fewer than 50 employees now represent 21% of the total, compared to 8% in 2017. Agreements entered into in companies with 50 to 299 employees represent 45% of the total, compared to 33 in four years ago.
Two days a week
71% of teleworking agreements contemplate “regular teleworking”, that is, they define fixed days (the same days each week) or flexible days (different days from one week to another) for teleworking.
“A significant proportion of agreements combine fixed and flexible hours with, for example, the establishment of two flexible teleworking days a week with the impossibility of teleworking on Mondays and Fridays. Other agreements propose to combine fixed and flexible days with, for example, one fixed day per week and an annual volume of 20 flexible days per year. Whatever the formula adopted, it is systematically specified that these days must be defined in agreement with the manager”. Dares explains.
It should be noted that more than half of the regular teleworking agreements (52%) contemplate the possibility of teleworking from home two days a week, while 21% only authorize one day and 15% three. Less than 5% of the agreements contemplate the possibility of teleworking every day of the week.
Source: BFM TV
