How companies adapt to new Wave of Covid-19

The new health protocol, published on Monday, insists on the respect of the distancing, the wearing of the mask and the quality of the ventilation. If small businesses are ready to support a strengthening of teleworking, large companies refuse there.

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Return to teleworking or simple reminder of barrier gestures between employees on the sites? With the acceleration of the number of cases of Covid-19, coupled with the arrival of the new Omicron variant, the fevering wins the world of work.

Does the state have to compel businesses to teleworking? At the time it is, “we are not going to set an obligation, but I, I invite the employers to favor”, on Friday, November 26 on Franceinfo, the Minister of Labor, Elisabeth Borne.

She heard the supplications of Geoffroy Roux of Bézieux, the president of the company movement of France (Medef), which, on 23 November on BFM-TV-RMC: “the business leaders must recover on the teleworking, but no obligation. “” We must let the local dialogue being done, “he said, reminding that many companies already had teleworking agreements and that follow the Belgian example of a mandatory distance work Four days a five would be “an error”.

The President of the Syntec Federation, Laurent Giovachini, which includes a million jobs in digital, engineering or advice, also believes that to counter the fifth wave, “at present stage, we do not have Need Oukase on teleworking “.

Unlike large companies, the smaller ones are for their part to support a strengthening of teleworking where possible. “In small businesses, it was with the Covid-19 that was discovered teleworking. We lived in pain, we were not formed, we had difficulties of access to software, we have is struck with illectronism and a lot of staff were overproof for lack of adequate housing for teleworking. But teleworking has saved us. We will play the game, “Bernard Cohen-Hadad, President of the Confederation of Small and Medium Enterprises Paris-Ile-de-France.

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The leader of the employer organization believes that “in activities compatible with remote work, companies will go up to three or four days a week. But it will be based on the ability to provide orders in that period streaming that is the end of the year “. All administrative functions – orders, billing, payroll management – are concerned. As for the tasks incompatible with remote work, companies organize the team division so that they do not intersect, or the least possible.

“We also ask companies to spread the schedules of arrival of employees, depending on the trades, between 6 am and 10 am, as they had already done in June 2020, to prevent everyone from Is found in transport at the same time, “adds Mr. Cohen-Hadad. With the arrival of the fifth wave, “what we dread the most is the return of the gauges, the curfew, or even a confinement, which cause an immediate fall of turnover and the departure part of the purchases towards distance selling “.

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