Nina Droff, edited by Solène Leroux 5:54 p.m., January 02, 2022

Tomorrow is also the start of the school year for many employees after the Christmas holidays.

The government now imposes a minimum of three days of compulsory teleworking.

And to supervise it, the executive intends to increase the checks carried out by the labor inspectorate.

Resistance that can be expensive.

In this return to work in January 2022, employees are also back on their way to work.

With a particularity this year due to the health crisis.

Prime Minister Jean Castex announced last Monday that teleworking would be compulsory from January 3.

And recalcitrant companies risk a lot: 1,000 euros fine per employee up to a limit of 50,000 euros.

A measure that worries many employees and employers.

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"We know that teleworking is a few days," explains Benoît Serre, president of ANDRH, the national association of HRDs.

However, when "it's a lot in the week, and three or four days [as recommended by the government] it's still a lot. There, it's less good."

Suffering at work

According to him, it is "less good for the employees because they do not necessarily live it well".

And to recall that there are risks "of finding phenomena of isolation or living conditions that are not adapted to that", observed during the last confinements.

There may be "a form of suffering at work related to a feeling of intensity" and to "never taking breaks".

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According to Benoît Serre, the question of the stability of a society also arises: "We know that too much teleworking degrades collective productivity."

He is also convinced that this measure will be longer than announced since "each time the government has had to take decisions of this kind, it has never lasted three weeks, but rather two or even three months" .

A real fear, while France is in a "form of economic recovery".

The president of ANDRH "is afraid that it will last a long time", and that it will affect French growth efforts.