Paris (AFP)
Three out of ten teleworkers confined believe that their psychological health (30%) and their physical health (27%) deteriorated during confinement, according to a CSA poll for Malakoff Humanis published Wednesday.
A similar proportion of these teleworkers deplore an increase in their mental load (28%), "experience tensions with their family circle" (28%) and consider that confinement has deteriorated the quality of their sleep (29%) and their food (26%), according to this survey of employees of private sector companies with at least 10 employees.
Four in ten "find it difficult to combine professional and personal life time" (39%) or "to disconnect from work" (45%). They also feel "a deterioration in the quality of the social bond" (39%) with their colleagues and their manager, "difficult to maintain" despite digital tools.
For three out of ten respondents, the "specific context of forced telework" caused by the Covid-19 has "a negative impact" on their workload (33%) and their motivation (30%).
"Half" of the confined teleworkers "are experimenting with this form of work for the first time". Those who had already adopted it are now less happy: their "satisfaction rating" has decreased, going from 9/10 in 2019 to 8.3 / 10 during confinement.
Among teleworkers with children, almost half experience "difficulty doing remote work while having to take care of their children" (47%), according to this survey, the first in a series of three planned here at the end of May by Malakoff Humanis.
Overall, confined teleworkers are worried: 86% are afraid "for the economic future of the country", 49% "for their own future" and 42% "for that of their business".
A third of them think that this health crisis "will modify the position of their company vis-à-vis telework" (35%, against 16% after the strikes of December and January last which had favored to a lesser extent use of telework).
Almost six in ten new teleworkers are already considering "asking to practice teleworking after confinement, on a regular or ad hoc basis".
This survey was carried out from April 15 to 20 on the internet, with a representative sample of 1,010 employees of private sector companies with at least 10 employees.
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