Hiring lever, essential demand for candidates for a position or for current employees, teleworking has become a norm or even a social achievement after the global covid pandemic.
But if it responds to the deep aspiration to better reconcile personal and professional life, it is a double-edged sword. Main limitation: the propensity of teleworkers to do more than usual, comfortably installed in their living room.
Or this hausse du nombre d’heures effectively travaillées ne s’accompagne généralement pas du versement d’heures supplémentaires alors qu’un salarié au bureau peut y prétendre… Et ce nombre d’heures peut être être élevé selon la profession et l ‘age.
6 hours of free overtime on average
According to a study “People at work 2022” by ADP, a specialist in human resources solutions, almost two-thirds of French employees say they telework “for free”.
On average, they would offer their employers the equivalent of 6 unpaid extra hours worked in their spare time each week.
In detail, this trend affects both men and women (64% vs 63%) but especially the youngest: 73% aged 18/24 compared to 57% aged 45/54.
And it is the youngest employees who telework the most for free: 7.8 hours for those aged 18/24, 6.5 hours for those aged 25/34 and 5 hours for those aged 45/54.
Young people in the communication/information sector most affected
Where do they work? Mainly in the tertiary sector. The study shows that 80% of employees in the media and information sector believe that they telework partly for free. With a pretty staggering additional average of 9 hours per week.
Then come real estate and telecommunications employees (75% for 7 to 8 hours overtime), finance (73% for 7 hours), leisure and reception (70% for 6 hours on average).
“These numbers show that remote workers are working overtime every day without additional pay, either starting earlier or logging off later, taking short breaks, being available after hours during normal work hours, and of course therefore, to respond always present”, says the study.
“The amount of unpaid overtime worked by teleworkers is a worrying figure, especially with the risk of not respecting the right to disconnect,” he adds. Carlos Fontelas De Carvalho, President of ADP in France and Switzerland.
Let us remember that in 2021, 4,070 company agreements were signed, according to a study by Dares (Ministry of Labor) published at the end of November 2022, with an average of 2 days per week. This is 10 times more than in 2017.
Source: BFM TV
