meeting with an employee divided between the pleasure of “having good coffee” and the lack of “interactions”

On the living room table in Emeline, in the near Parisian suburbs, a majestic gray cat throne, keeper of his laptop. “It is a Mgroin coon ‘, it takes up space “, she smiles. His “teleworking companion since the start of the pandemic” is “Glad I’m here. And I’m glad to be here too!”

An executive in the pharmaceutical industry, Emeline lives in an apartment with her husband and three children. Dsince January 3, eShe had to return to telecommuting five days a week: the government made it again compulsory, three days a week minimum for employees who can, in the face of the progression of the Omicron variant of Covid-19. “Once again we say to ourselves: Damn, we are not going to be able to go around the offices to wish everyone a Happy New Year, physically. Little things like that”, sighs Emeline.

And if his “little pleasure of teleworking”, it’s from “to be able to buy good coffee”, again, this Ile-de-France “I regret the not very good coffee from the machine “ from his work, “a central element, where everyone passes. This taste of coffee is still lacking a little”.

On the organizational side, Emeline is adapting. When her children are at home, she works in her bedroom. When they are away, she settles in her living room. A way like any other to “change a little space”, explains the mother of the family, even if he “sometimes happens to go and work possibly at a neighbor’s, so as not to be alone “. Because “we no longer have these interactions when we are teleworking. We thought that they weren’t necessarily very important in our day, but ultimately they took us out of our work bubble. And this is important “, she insists.

Since the start of the pandemic, Emeline has been able to return to the office at times, but never 100%. The work itself has changed organization, with the appearance of a new word: “We went into a ” phygital ” mode”, she smiles. “That is to say that there were both people physically present, but that we were never all there at the same time, since we had also set up a system of rotation”, explains Emeline. “So we work with the people who are present in the same room and with the people who are connected.”

She, who discovered teleworking a few days before the first confinement, still hopes that this situation will not exceed a few weeks.