Abstract

Introduction: Teleworking in companies, a practice, much older than one might think, hardly has become widespread in France since its inception. The world has gone through the Covid-19 health crisis. This led many companies, that sometimes are resistant to this practice, to impose teleworking on their employees.
This article briefly reviews the development of telework and the evolution of its context in France. Our study focuses on how teleworkers experienced this mode of work during confinement, while influenced by many factors including their relations with managers, new forms of ICT and legislation.
Purpose of the work: The aim is to review teleworking experiences in France, particularly during first confinement of 2020, and identify positive and negative consequences for employees and employers.
Methods used: An initial literature review has been done [1]. This was then further extended. He undertook a current state analysis with the data collected and interpreted from Twitter. Simultaneously another research paper [2] focused on workplace visits during the global pandemic. Further data focused on “télétravail” in France and French speakers worldwide has been collected [3] completed her master thesis “The motivation in work, how is self-determined motivation influenced by indirect impacts on company employees from the 2000s to today?” The study focused to the impacts of Covid-19, specifically on the well-being of employees in organisations. This study served as one of the inspirational sources for this paper.
Scope of the work: This research focuses on “teleworking” that became the norm during lockdown for those that were remote working and for those that could adapt their activities to do so. The pandemic was unexpected for many employers, employees and professionals. This research takes a further step with Dr. David Newlands and other researchers detailed at the acknowledgements at the end of this paper.
Conclusion: This paper summarises three principal studies and draws from them conclusions and an agenda for further research.