Emmanuel Duteil 7:06 am, January 07, 2022
Since Monday, teleworking three days a week is compulsory for employees who can.
Consequence: cafes, restaurants and hotels are deprived of a large part of their clientele.
The unions are worried about the fall in turnover that will follow.
Since Monday, all French people who can have to do at least three days of telework per week.
If this measure, supposed to curb contamination in the workplace, rejoices some employees, some sectors suffer.
This is the case with the hotel and catering industry, which is losing some of its customers.
No more lunches with colleagues or business trips.
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"We have an average drop in activity of 30%. Some hotels lose 50% of their turnover. And you have the majority of professionals, restaurants, cafes and bars which are at a 30% drop in activity. business areas, we are closer to 50% ", laments Pascal Mousset, president of the group of independent Ile-de-France.
"We have no visibility"
"For me, this is the wave of too much economically for our industry. I have never had so many testimonies of distress. A real weariness and a real fear of tomorrow. I think that, today ' hui, it would be a shame if the government left us in the middle of the ford and did not go to the end of the economic support of our companies. All the money that it invested during these two years would therefore have been useless. ? We do not have visibility and that is always what poses a problem for an entrepreneur. "
On Monday, the Minister of the Economy announced new measures to help businesses affected by the health restrictions.
100% of the partial activity of companies that have lost 65% of their turnover will be covered by Bercy and the threshold for access to the fixed cost reimbursement system has also been lowered.