The Covid-19 pandemic has led to a widespread shift towards remote working, which has probably laid the foundations for a ‘new deal’ on working conditions, with long-term implications.
The project aims to gain a better understanding of the causes and consequences of this increase in remote working, both within the specific context and working conditions of the 2020 pandemic, and in the period that followed. The first part of the project will identify the activities that can be carried out remotely and will seek to explain, amongst these activities, the differences in the actual uptake of remote working between organisations and employees. Beyond the intrinsic value of this analysis, one of the objectives is to identify sources of variation that are not linked to company productivity or employees’ job satisfaction, and which can be used in a second stage to assess the effects of remote working: on companies on the one hand, and on employees on the other (job satisfaction, work-life balance, gender inequalities, etc.). A third stage will analyse the factors determining the continuation and success of remote working following the health crisis
