• Teleworking is currently widely practiced in Ile-de-France: 66% of working people work remotely at least one day a week, and 28% full-time.

  • On average, one in three Ile-de-France residents would like to leave Ile-de-France, 40% say they are satisfied with the place where they live and 30% would like to move, but for the same district, another district in the same city or another city, but in the region.

The Ile-de-France residents have taken a liking to teleworking and are relatively numerous and numerous to want to leave the region, but not in overwhelming proportions either.

These are the main lessons of a Becoming study carried out for the Forum Vies Mobiles with 1,004 inhabitants, from April 5 to 13.

Teleworking is currently widely practiced in Ile-de-France: 66% of working people work remotely at least one day a week, and 28% full-time.

And obviously, this way of life, when it is chosen and flexible in small doses, pleases them.

Two-thirds of working people want to be able to work at least one day a week from home or from a third place close to home (68%).

Logically enough, those who have practiced telework are much more favorable to seeing their practice perpetuated (80%) than those who did not practice it (42% favorable).

A rural exodus of Ile-de-France residents?

Another lesson from the study, which may seem linked to the health crisis, but not necessarily: on average one in three Ile-de-France residents would like to leave Ile-de-France (24% for another region and 6% for another country) .

And clearly not to move to another mega-city or a big city: 81% want to settle in medium to small towns, or even in the countryside.

This is actually a lower figure than that obtained in the previous study for the Forum Vies Mobiles: in 2018, 45% of Ile-de-France residents wanted to leave Ile-de-France.

This would confirm that the rural exodus of Ile-de-France residents could be more of a myth than a reality.

Overall, moreover, 40% say they are satisfied with the place where they live and 30% would like to move, but for the same district, another district in the same city or another city, but in the region.

Parisians more satisfied

Contrary to what may have been said during the health crisis, it is not the inhabitants of Paris who are the most dissatisfied (only 22% of Parisians want to leave the region) but the inhabitants of the Grande and the Small Crown (respectively 31% and 34%).

“We are more satisfied with where we live today when we live in Paris than when we live in Petite or Grande Couronne,” explains the study.

Let us add all the same, to conclude, that it is not because one does not want to leave the region that one does not wish to soften the pedal.

Three quarters of Ile-de-France residents aspire to slow down and better control their pace of life (74%).

In short: change the city, no, but change the city, yes!

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Methodology:

Becoming study carried out for the Forum Vies Mobiles with 1,004 inhabitants, (representative sample) from April 5 to 13, 2021.

  • Teleworking

  • High-Tech

  • Countryside

  • Transport

  • Paris