Clément Lesaffre 7:18 am, September 13, 2021

More than eight out of ten companies have already received long-distance teleworking requests from their employees.

By the sea, in the countryside, in the mountains ... the French leave the big cities for less stressful environments.

A phenomenon to which the economy and businesses are adapting with dedicated offers.

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"The tickets were not expensive, we were fed up with the grayness so we thought we were going to live the Italian dream!"

During the second confinement, in the fall of 2020, Flore, a sales representative, went to telecommute for a month in Puglia, Italy, with two colleagues.

A (long) distance work which attracts more and more employees.

According to a study by the consulting company Cooptalis, 86% of French companies have received requests for remote teleworking from their employees and 74% of them have validated these requests.

A phenomenon that is helping to create a new transport and accommodation offer dedicated to teleworkers.

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On paper, long-distance teleworking indeed opens the door to an almost heavenly life.

"The setting was beautiful, we were at the water's edge. After lunch, we could work outside on the terrace and enjoy the sun. We managed to work well and enjoy afterwards with the sea just below", said Flore remembers.

"It was a bit of an exceptional moment, I'm aware of it. Now, I wouldn't be leaving for a month. On the other hand, I do long weekends. Recently I was in Barcelona with Monday and Tuesday teleworking. . "

Holiday homes adapted to teleworking

Working on vacation is what the Pierre & Vacances - Center Parcs group now offers. "The idea came from some of our employees who wanted to take advantage of the residences during confinement. We went from a world with leisure on one side and business on the other, to a much more vague world with boundaries are changing, so we have developed an offer adapted to teleworking, ”explains Grégory Sion, Managing Director of Pierre & Vacances. In 87 group residences, the teleworker has improved wifi, a 4G key to work by the pool and an ergonomics kit (laptop support, adapted mouse and keyboard).

According to Grégory Sion, we had to keep the holiday spirit for the offer to work.

"We realize that the first customers who came to telework in our residences tended to sit on the balcony, by the pool, in the café… This is why we preferred to focus on ergonomics. telework rather than investing in office furniture that would not be used much.We also work with a partner who provides on request breakfasts delivered to the accommodation with local and seasonal products, so that people can still concentrate on their work despite the location. "

Telecommuting with your feet in the water is possible!

Even without going so far as to blur the line between work and vacation, more and more French people are thinking about changing their living environment through teleworking. Juliette had always lived and worked in Paris before moving to Perros-Guirec, in the Côtes-d'Armor, last year. "It was a real choice to leave Paris, to be in a much less stressful environment," she assumes. Juliette even chose her new job, a job as a trainer in a media education association, based on the telework criterion.

"I favored the geographical location and daily well-being. The association is based in Paris but I could integrate it by staying in Brittany and just going back and forth from time to time," he says. -she.

In addition to traveling throughout France for training, Juliette only goes to Paris for a few days every 2-3 weeks.

A slight pace as more and more French people go back and forth every week between their business and their distant home.

A special teleworking package at the SNCF

An audience that the SNCF has decided to target with a dedicated "teleworking package": 250 trips per year from Monday to Thursday to all TGV Inoui and Intercités destinations, always on the same home-work line. "This offer is aimed at people who, two or three times a week, will go from a home, perhaps new thanks to teleworking, to their work", explains Alain Krakovitch, director of Voyages SNCF. "What we think is that these are the main lines corresponding to weekend departures that will be favored. There, we will be over long distances to the Atlantic coast, Brittany, the South-East ..."

Tiring back and forth trips at the time but which, in the long term, are profitable by the benefits of living outside the big cities. "The main benefit is for mental health. We are satisfied with much less here," says Juliette, who loves her life at Perros-Guirec. "I start my days earlier than in Paris but I am lucky enough to be able to have breakfast on the terrace facing the sea, to go swimming after work in the evening, to go for a walk in the nature… I realize that being well in my head allows me to be more efficient at work. "