REPORTAGE
For the past week, with the gradual end of confinement, many employees have abandoned their homes to find their businesses. No more teleworking, and in some areas, it shows. In La Défense, north-west of Paris, there are more workers than a dozen days ago. But the coronavirus remains in their minds. And between the satisfaction of finding his colleagues and the difficulty of adopting new habits, especially in health matters, their hearts are swaying. Reportage.
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After the apprehension of the recovery, often linked to public transport, the return to work turns out to be, for many, a relief. Everyone is trying to resume their little habits, like Estelle and Bastien, who have reinstated their traditional lunch on the steps of the Grande Arche. A duo which, according to the young woman, works much better within the walls of the company than in telework. "When he is next to me, when we have a file, we can talk to each other directly. Say 'well, did you see this point or that other point?'. We save a lot of time ", she judges.
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Efficiency regained, certainly, but at the cost of a few adjustments, nuance Bastien, which has a little trouble getting used to wearing the mask. "We have a lot of relationships over the phone, so spending the whole day with a mask on the phone is not necessarily easy," admits the young man. "We actually feel suffocated. We're not used to it, so wearing it all day is impossible."
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Not used to working in almost empty offices either. "We still feel alone," said Marisa, assistant in property management. "It is true that staying from 8 am to 5 pm confined to his office, without seeing anyone or very, very few people, that is a bit hard." Hard but necessary according to several employees, who already fear the return to the site of their colleagues. And the difficult application of barrier gestures.