Since the start of confinement, very many companies have adopted teleworking, a practice that makes exchanges more difficult between employees. If maintaining group cohesion is essential, the usefulness of long working meetings is called into question. 

Endless meetings in front of a computer screen, it doesn't work. For Mathieu Beucher, founder of the company Klaxoon, teleworking, which has become widespread in France to fight against the spread of the coronavirus, is an opportunity for "new habits to take: How is a remote meeting, what are the best practices? How will I manage to synchronize with my colleagues? " A change that could last since Prime Minister Edouard Philippe calls for maintaining telework as much as possible, even after deconfinement.

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No more than 15 minutes of meeting

"Meetings is something that does not already work in normal times" says Mathieu Beucher, whose company specializes in the design of new meeting software, at the microphone of La France bouge, on Europe 1. This chef d he company recommends abandoning weekly meetings of more than an hour and a half. "They must last less than thirty minutes" but above all they must be replaced by meetings "daily, less than fifteen minutes".

Also a guest of Europe 1, the psychiatrist Bernard Astruc sums up the dilemma of business leaders during telework: "If I call too often, I will be intrusive, if I don't call, my employee will feel abandoned ".

Patrick Schambel, CEO of SilverPeas thinks and hopes for his part that "the coronavirus is a pandemic that will change the way of working. I think that it will slightly change this system of meetings which are a waste of time for everyone ". Another option is also, according to him, to set up tools to allow "asynchronous work", in order to be able to work at different rhythms and schedules.

Meetings: a beneficial contact

However, there is no question of completely suppressing the meetings, "in a moment of confinement, communication is not necessarily obvious when it is essential", affirms Vincent Bruneau, founder and CEO of Sparkup. Mathieu Beucher abounds: "It feels good to have this point of contact, regular and not too long". According to him, it is necessary "to avoid the oral round table, which does not work very well" and to privilege the interaction, by leaning on visual. For Vincent Bruneau, video exchange is also essential: With "someone in front of you, we will immediately be able to create a link", unlike a simple phone call.