Although the practice of teleworking experienced unprecedented growth during the health crisis linked to Covid-19, employees continue to use it today. What about its impact on collectives and sociability at work? Beyond the risks, particularly of isolation, that it poses to employees, how does teleworking affect teamwork and union organizations? Based on the results of a survey of all members of the Banking Insurance branch of the CFDT, sociologists Sophie Louey, Jérôme Pelisse and Henri Bergeron analyze the ambivalence of a practice that has become a central issue in the wage relationship. , social dialogue and the collective dimension of many work activities.
The authors:
Sophie Louey is a sociologist, postdoctoral fellow at the Transformation of Organizations and Work chair at Sciences Po. She is an associate member of the Center for Sociology of Organizations at Sciences Po, and of the Center for the Study of Employment and Work at the National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts (CNAM) as well as the University Center for Research on Public Action and Politics at the University of Picardie Jules-Verne. She is notably co-author with Henri Bergeron and Jérôme Pélisse of a report on the effects of teleworking on collectives at work: Teleworking, organization and union practices in services: a test for collectives at work? (IRES-CFDT, 2023).
Jérôme Pélisse is a sociologist, professor at Sciences Po Paris, researcher at the Center for Sociology of Organizations. A specialist in professional relations, he has published several books and articles on labor conflicts, negotiations or the history of trade union organizations, such as The fight continues? Labor conflicts in contemporary France (with Sophie Béroud, Guillaume Desage and Baptiste Giraud, published by Editions du Croquant, 2008); Sociology of categorical unionism: the CFE-CGC or the end of an exception? (with Élodie Béthoux, Guillaume Desage and Arnaud Mias, published by Armand Colin, 2013); The CGT (1975-1995). Crisis-proof unionism (with Sophie Béroud, Elyane Bressol and Michel Pigenet, published by l’Arbre bleu, 2019) or even Social dialogue under control (with Baptiste Giraud, to be published in 2024).
Henri Bergeron is a sociologist, director of research at the CNRS at the Center for Sociology of Organizations at Sciences Po, director of the Executive Master of public affairs and holder of the Transformation of Organizations and Work chair at Sciences Po. He is notably the author, with Olivier Borraz, Patrick Castel and François Dedieu, from Covid-19: an organizational crisis (Presses de Sciences Po, 2020) and, with Constance Nathanson, of The social production of crisis: blood politics in France and in the US (Oxford University Press, 2023).
This note is part of a reflection carried out, in partnership with the CFDT, within a committee of experts in human and social sciences composed of Henri Bergeron, sociologist, Patrick Boucheron, the story, Patrick Castel, sociologist, Laurence Devillairs, philosopher, Serge Hefez, psychiatrist, Emmanuel Hirsch, professor of medical ethics, Elise Huillery, economist, Marylise Leon, general secretary of the CFDT, Jérémie Peltier, co-director general of the Jean-Jaurès Foundation, and Marie-Caroline Saglio-Yatzimirsky, anthropologist.
