France: an agreement to make teleworking the norm and to transform the organization of work at InVivo

On 04 November the InVivo group (a structure comprising 201 cooperatives representing nearly 300,000 farmers) together with the CFE/CGC, CFDT, CFTC and FO trade unions, representing the majority of the relevant employees signed an agreement to switch at least 50% to 60% of the tertiary function’s working time into telework, to develop flex-office working, and to open up the potential for staggered working hours, and in this way making concrete the hitherto somewhat frustrated desire of many large French companies to make telework the new norm. In signing the agreement this ‘small’ group (5000 people) within the agri-food industry has succeeded in achieving this goal. Furthermore the agreement negotiations addressed methods of organizing meetings, the use of new technologies to support this new way of working, and new management practices. The full article is available to view in the attachment provided (in French only).

See here to read the article on the agreement in French