Teleworking (illustration).

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RAPHAEL BLOCH / SIPA

  • The Bordeaux Aquitaine urban planning agency carried out a study on the practice of teleworking during the first confinement. 

  • It emerges that there were fewer teleworkers in Gironde than at national level, but that more than one in two teleworkers would like to work more remotely in the future.

  • The estimated development of teleworking would prevent up to 36,000 daily trips.

After the large-scale experimentation with teleworking, what is its potential and its effect on mobility in Gironde?

The Bordeaux Aquitaine urban planning agency took an interest in this question by conducting a survey during the first confinement, which is part of the national Telework study, (Im) mobility and lifestyles carried out by the Ademe during the same period.

The survey was carried out during the first confinement in March, April and May, a period during which 28% of Girondin workers teleworked according to the survey.

Of these, 15% were first-time teleworkers and 13% were regular teleworkers.

A proportion of teleworkers overall which remains well below that observed at the national level (41% of French workers teleworked during confinement), but also in urban areas of more than 100,000 inhabitants outside Paris.

What profile for teleworkers?

Teleworking is much more common among managers and higher intellectual professions who constitute 42% of teleworkers in the Gironde.

This practice concerns both men and women, and very largely couples with children.

The working hours of usual teleworkers are longer: 5.7 days per week against 5.2 days for other workers.

Teleworking remains for a large majority a one-off practice: only 6% of working people use it on a regular basis (at least one day a week), which represents a weekly average of only 0.8 days.

Teleworking is carried out in more than 90% of cases at home.

The main motivations for using it are a calm environment (74%) and flexibility in working hours (47%).

The issue of transport only comes into play at the margin: only 17% say they telework to save transport time and 11% to reduce their trips for ecological purposes.

"The only negative elements that stand out are the ergonomics of the place and the work tools", points out the agency in its press release.

Do they wish to continue?

More than one in two teleworkers (54%) say they want to telework more in the future.

Teleworkers residing in Bordeaux are much less likely to want to telework more often (29%), while those residing in all three sectors surveyed (Libournais agglomeration community, Arcachon North basin agglomeration community, A large majority (76%) so wish.

At the end of the health crisis, all teleworkers could therefore represent 22% of assets in Gironde (13% of current teleworkers and 9% of new teleworkers).

At the level of all working people, the study predicts that teleworking would lead to a decrease of 1.1% in trips and 1.5% in distances taken on an average working day.

The estimated development of teleworking would make it possible to avoid 36,000 trips every day, including 33,000 by car, and 363,000 kilometers traveled, including 347,000 by car.

Figures that should give ground to grind to political decision-makers and employers to position themselves on telework, once the health crisis is over.

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  • Aquitaine

  • Bordeaux

  • Covid 19

  • Teleworking

  • epidemic

  • Confinement