Boost your creativity with remote work

The teleworking occupies an increasingly important place in the company. Likely to restore autonomy to employees and increase everyone's productivity, its image is however not yet up to its many advantages. Valérie Rocoplan, coach and founder of Talentis, explains to us how to successfully set up it.

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Teleworking is a New space-time from which the employee will be able to benefit. More autonomy, less stress and frustration, increased room for manoeuvre, an organization of working time adapted to its environment, fewer requests from office colleagues, fewer phone calls...

For example, a study conducted by Stanford University in 2013 showed that Chinese call center employees working from home saw their performance increase by 13%! And according to Philippe Planterose, president of the French Association of Teleworking and Teleactivities, the productivity of remote workers increases by 25%.

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More autonomous employees

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Nevertheless: some managers are sometimes still a bit cautious when it comes to implementing remote working — partial or not — within their company. A study conducted by Mobilitis and OpinionWay, in 2012, highlighted this fact: Some 48% of managers were then opposed to a request for the implementation of partial telework.

Lack of synergy and involvement in company life, lack of managerial support and motivation, loss of productivity were high among managers' concerns.

It is true that French management is still marked by a very “Taylorian” spirit, which is by nature not inclined to give more autonomy to its employees and to abandon all visual control. Just as he still sometimes has difficulty measuring effectiveness by the objectives achieved and no longer by presenteeism, adopting the axiom “presence = productivity”.

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Communicate your goals clearly

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However, teleworking offers numerous advantages for the employee and for the company. Provided that it is the result of clear communication about its objectives, in a context of trust and autonomy.

Offered to everyone, and not only to those who live far away or who have children, and if it is well supervised, teleworking can unleash the creativity and freedom of your employees. To turn this test into an absolute success, to provide more autonomy while increasing productivity, it is however necessary to respect certain rules, applicable to both employees and managers.

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The golden rules of teleworking

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Find your new creative space. Get out of the “remote work = work from home” pattern. Have a nomadic spirit and dare to get out of the age-old “subway, work, sleep” routine! Coffee, coworking space, library are all places that are attracting more and more employees.

Take control of your time. You must learn to manage your time, to protect certain spaces and to remain available to your manager at certain times. Teleworking requires better organization, and therefore greater accountability.

Make yourself visible. To help you reach your goals and to reassure your manager or colleagues that you are able to work as much as others, make your work visible.

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How to manage remote work

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• Make sure your collaborator has of all the necessary equipment to remote work.
• If that is possible, limit remote work to one or two days per week in order to maintain physical contact with other employees, and avoid any risk of isolation and loss of collective ties.
• Plan group time by distributing the days your employees work from home and maintaining meeting times.
• Use Skype and other teleconferencing tools for your virtual meetings in order to involve your remote workers as much as possible.
• Maintain a regular link with your collaborators and ask them to provide you with information regularly.