France: Publicis regulates teleworking without rolling back this right

Publicis chief executive Arthur Sadoun signalled a return to the office for the communications group's staff in statements to the media in autumn last year, however the firm struck an agreement in November that maintains the existing rhythm of two days of teleworking per week. The text, signed by a majority of the unions more than three and a half years after the start of Covid-19, provides a framework for a decentralised group and grants new rights to disabled employees, carers and pregnant women. The company's HR director discusses the implementation of this framework with mind RH.

In October, in a message to staff that caused quite a stir, Publicis CEO Arthur Sadoun announced restrictions on teleworking, including the impossibility of working remotely on two consecutive days and an obligation to be in the office on Mondays. “Since that message, I’ve been less popular,” he told Figaro TV. “But if people aren’t together, there’s no more innovation and young people don’t progress.” The communications group’s HR director in France qualifies the scope of the statement. “The two days a week of teleworking were pretty much the norm before the agreement,” Anne Decouzon explains to mind RH. “It was a global issue. In the United States, for example, we were confronted with the fact that employees were working far away from home.…

Antoine Piel

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