A study points to France's delay in teleworking

According to this survey carried out in Germany, France, Spain, Italy and the United Kingdom, the French working population stands out "by a more restricted access" to teleworking.

When asked about their average practice of teleworking, only 29% of French working people say they telework "at least once a week", against 51% of Germans, 50% of Italians, 42% of British and 36% of Spaniards.

The frequency of teleworking in France is less there than elsewhere. "While in the other European countries, the proportion of teleworkers four to five days a week is higher than that having recourse to it two to three days, it is the reverse which one observes in France", note the analysts of Ifop.

In Italy, for example, 30% of working people telework for four to five days and 17% for two to three days, while in France, these frequencies concern 11% and 14% of working people, respectively.

The same is true of inequalities in access to remote work according to socio-professional category (CSP). In the five countries, CSP + have more access to telework than CSP- but it is in France that the divide is most marked with a differential of 39 points (56% of CSP + and 17% of CSP- have access to telework ). It is eight points in Italy (56% against 48%).

When working people are asked about their aspirations, and the number of "desired" days of teleworking is averaged out, it is the lowest in France: the ideal average frequency is 1,8 days per week there against 2,7 , 2 in Spain, 2,2 in the United Kingdom, 2,4 in Germany and XNUMX in Italy.

This survey was carried out from September 21 to 27, 2021 using the quota method with assets drawn from representative samples of 1.011 Germans, 1.002 French, 1.004 British, 1.008 Spaniards and 1.007 Italians.

Faced with the wave of the Omicron variant of Covid-19, the French government decided that since Monday and for three weeks, companies where this was possible had to allow their employees to telework three days a week, or even four.