If remote work cannot be applied in all sectors, it should nevertheless become predominant in an economy increasingly focused on services. Protime is working on developing remote work as a corporate solution. Explanation.
In a predominantly suburban habitat in France, the commutes to work continue to extend. Therefore, thinking in terms of hours of presence for work time no longer makes sense. Legally, there are seven hours of work per day, but in reality, it amounts to about ten hours per day with time spent in transportation. The employee’s productivity is evidently greatly affected. Not to mention that due to offices being located in city centers or business zones, the increasingly limited space prevents the employee from focusing on an individual task.
Remote work or working differently
Protime, an expert in time management, offers many tools to allow companies to reap the benefits of implementing remote work for their employees. Thus, Protime can set up a mobile portal, which allows employees working outside the office to indicate their schedules, view the tasks they need to complete. This allows for remote monitoring of employees’ activities while complying with current French legislation.
“Remote work makes the employee more efficient,” explain Sophie Henrion, Marketer for France, Belgium, and Luxembourg, and Sébastien Elvira, Head of Business Development for the group. “They reinvest some of the time saved into their work, can concentrate more easily, work more, and above all, they are more fulfilled.”
Partial remote work allows for working according to real needs rather than corporate social conventions. Meetings are held only when there is a genuine need. People can focus the rest of the time. Moreover, current communication tools largely compensate for the necessity of in-person face-to-face interactions.
Remote work subject to prejudices
There is already the French myth of the employee who must be monitored to be productive, which has become absurd because, on the contrary, this outdated monitoring limits productivity by hindering fulfillment and creativity.
The hierarchical structure of the project requires the group’s presence at the workplace according to most managers, whereas competitiveness is increasingly based on objective-driven collaboration, which is much more suited to new competitive challenges and a society that is evolving.
The loss of control over the company’s operations is a risk to the company and its productivity. With employees becoming more skilled out of necessity and by their own will, this reasoning is again absurd. Furthermore, with modern IT tools, this is no longer the case.
The Protime project proposes monitoring that allows for measuring employee productivity and engagement while involving them in the self-monitoring of their actions. With this project-based collaboration tool shared between employees, workgroups, managers, and executives, not only does collaboration become more efficient and easier, but it also allows for an accurate measurement of the company’s productivity. In the context of the digital transformation of companies, it will undoubtedly become a condition for competitiveness in the years to come.
