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Teleworking was born in the 1970s. At the time, the leading telephone service provider in the United States, American Telegraph Telephone, was a pioneer in this field. France had to wait 23 years and the government of Edouard Balladur before teleworking began to be taken into account in 1993.<\/p>\n
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With Covid and the first lockdown decreed in France on the evening of March 16, 2020<\/b> by President Emmanuel Macron, teleworking is seen as a temporary means for many companies to continue their activities<\/b>. Indeed, those declared \u201cvital\u201d are required to continue operating (health, food, water management, research, banking, communication, information, etc.). Others were asked to close their doors for a while.<\/p>\n
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In the United States, Tesla CEO Elon Musk is the first to require his employees to return to the office in 2022<\/b>. This RTO (Return to Office) policy<\/b> is quickly adopted in 2024 by Amazon, JP Morgan, Starbucks<\/b>, and Boeing<\/b>. In France, Amazon, Publicis, and Ubisoft<\/b> are following suit.<\/p>\n
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According to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in the first quarter of 2024, 35.5 million people in the United States were working remotely, representing 22.9% of the working population.<\/p>\n
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In 2023, more than a quarter of French employees, or around 6.1 million people, were teleworking at least occasionally.<\/p>\n
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While there are no precise figures at the international level, the International Labor Organization (ILO)<\/b> estimated in 2019<\/b>\u2014before the pandemic<\/b>\u2014that there were approximately 260 million \u201chome-based\u201d workers<\/b> (including telecitizens, freelancers, etc.), representing around 7.9% of total employment worldwide.<\/p>\n
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More recent studies suggest that nearly 52% of employees worldwide work remotely at least once a week.<\/p>\n
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