À l’épreuve du télétravail

Abstract

Les confinements consécutifs à la crise sanitaire ont brutalement fait basculer de larges franges de travailleur∙euses dans le télétravail. L’expérience du télétravail est cependant socialement sélective et socialement différenciée, comme le rappellent nos trois intervenantes. À partir de points de vue différents, mais ayant chacune été directement confrontée aux enjeux du télétravail, elles abordent des questions aussi importantes que la façon dont l’organisation du travail à distance sape ou reconfigure les collectifs de travail, exacerbe les inégalités de genre et met au défi l’action syndicale.

What makes work better or worse? An analytical framework

“…These workers may enjoy greater autonomy, but the boundaries between work and leisure time are blurring (Lambert et al, 2020) and workers are increasingly subject to forms of digital monitoring previously beyond managerial control (Sewell and Taskin, 2015). The reduction in face-to-face social contact is also changing the way work is done and may reduce its meaningfulness (Maillot et al, 2022), but there are also new opportunities for solidarity, collective action and representation (Öngün and Yon, 2021), notably through organisational creativity and the emergence of new grass-roots organisations (Vandaele, 2021).…”

Covid-19 and health and safety at work: Trade union dilemmas in Germany, France and Luxembourg (March 2020–December 2021)

“…In this context, the social partners were strongly encouraged by the government to conclude a collective agreement on telework, a measure which had covered almost 30% of the workforce in the spring and was once again a pressing need. Due to employer hostility to greater regulation of telework, the national agreement signed at the end of November was nothing more than a recapitulation of the existing rules ( Binet et al, 2021 ).…”