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Telecommuting: How to Manage Your Time Effectively?
Efficiency & Time ManagementWell-being & BalanceAll employees≈ 20 min
Key skill: Time management & prioritisation
Summary
While telecommuting, ensure working time is genuinely productive without excessive surveillance: define monitoring terms in the company agreement, replace clocking in with tracking activity indicators, and structure your days to protect work-life balance.
Target audience
Anyone involved in remote work
Learning objectives
- Make sure remote work is genuinely productive without falling into a demotivating spiral of surveillance
- Understand the law governing how working time is organised
- Build trust into how remote work is organised, to avoid micromanagement
- Replace time-clock control with tracking of activity indicators
Module outline
- StorytellingA playful exploration of tips for better organisation and communication while working remotely
- ArticlesMonitoring telecommuters: statistics and the legal framework · Controlling working time · Trust, organisation and remote work
- Expert videoThe law, why trust matters, and tips for managing your time while telecommuting
- AnchoringA quiz and True/False questions to dig deeper into the topic and anchor what you've learned
- Memo cardA downloadable coaching memo card: the key points from the expert video
- CommitmentConcrete examples to help you define your own commitment
Models & methods
Activity-indicator tracking vs. clocking hours; remote-work agreement or charter; weekly schedule and to-do list.
Research-based
Benjamin Azan and Mailys Charlier, authors on remote work; 2016 IPSOS study: 85% of French respondents cite flexibility as the top benefit.