While the government advocates teleworking in the face of the coronavirus epidemic, a CSA study for Malakoff Humanis, conducted in February 2020 and published on March 12 reveals that one third of private sector employees would have resorted to teleworking during the December 2019 strikes. This percentage rose to 50% in the Île-de-France region.
28% of the companies, which did not offer telework before and whose job allows it, have changed their position and declare to have finally granted it to their employees during the social movements of December 2019. 38% of employees whose job allowed them to telework, but who did not do so before, adopted it during this same period. In Ile-de-France, this proportion rises to 50% (vs. 41% on average usually).
Telecommuting is practiced by one third of private sector employees
Buoyed by the widespread use of digital tools and a regulatory framework that has been relaxed since September 2017, telecommuting is now practiced by 30% of private sector employees. And their satisfaction rate is up compared to 2018: 82% versus 77%.After a clear increase in the number of teleworkers between 2017 (25%) and 2018 (29%), the trend today is one of relative stagnation. The share of companies offering their employees to telework follows the same trend: 26% in 2017, 31% in 2018, and 32% in 2019.
With only 8% (vs. 9% in 2018) of contracted teleworkers, remote work is now mostly practiced informally and non-contracted (22% of teleworkers, vs. 19% in 2017).
Telecommuting is practiced on average 6.4 days per month (vs. 7 days in 2018). In practice, telecommuting remains mostly occasional: 47% of telecommuters telecommute less than one day per week, 17% one day per week, 22% more than one day per week and 14% telecommute permanently.
The home remains the preferred location for teleworkers (in 90% of cases). Only 25% of employees use a satellite office provided by their company and 20% a third place (coworking space, café...). The use of these alternative locations is declining: 35% in 2018 for satellite offices and 21% for third places.
Only 30% of telecommuting employees say they are supported in the implementation of this practice (training, risk awareness, mastery of remote work tools...), a figure that is slightly up from 2018 (28%).
In general, 75% of employees and 65% of managers are convinced that telework will continue to develop over the next 5 years. More than a quarter of the companies (whose activity allows it) declare themselves ready to propose it in case of exceptional situation.
The study was carried out among two representative samples of 1,610 employees (collected by internet) and 402 managers and HR directors (surveys conducted by telephone) of companies in the private sector, contacted in two periods: November-December 2019 and February 2020.Référence :
