Invited Sunday from Europe 1, Benoît Serre, vice-president of the National Association of HRDs, returned to the government's desire to strengthen the use of telework.

"Beware of monolithic standards that do not adapt to reality," he said, asking the government to take into account "the reality of businesses". 

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Businesses will have to adapt.

On Friday, Prime Minister Jean Castex announced a series of new restrictions in an attempt to avoid a sharp upsurge in the coronavirus epidemic, as well as the strengthening of the use of telework, "in all companies where it is possible".

A consultation on the subject should also be held Monday with the social partners.

Guest from Europe 1, Benoît Serre, vice-president of the National Association of HRDs (ANDRH), believes in any case that 100% teleworking can have a negative impact, both on companies and employees.

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In fact, teleworking "has little impact on individual production, but much collective, because people work less well together," says Benoît Serre, who expresses his reservations about 100% telework, "devastating for people and for businesses". 

"Phenomena of social isolation"

“During the telecommuting of the first confinement, everyone found it great, but during the second, we saw that it created phenomena of social isolation, with people calling us to tell us that they wanted to come back, and he took a few months for the government to understand and authorize the return one day a week ", continues the guest from Europe 1.  

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But, he specifies, this easing decided by the government at the beginning of January "did not really change" things, because "the companies were already doing it".

In the end, he concludes, total teleworking, "it hardly exists, except in certain trades which lend themselves to it"

"Beware of monolithic standards"

The vice-president of ANDRH asks the government to take into account "the reality of companies".

And to insist: "Beware of monolithic standards which do not adapt to reality".

"100% teleworking is psychologically dangerous, it is dangerous for companies, for employees," he insists again.

"We say that one day is the minimum, two days is the ideal", he concludes.