The measures announced on Saturday March 14 by Prime Minister Edouard Philippe are clear-cut: the closure of all bars, restaurants, cafés and nightclubs, and the ban on all gatherings of more than 100 people, mean that companies are obliged to limit the number of people present in their workplaces.
The widespread use of telecommuting raises many questions: why choose this way of working? What are the keys to working well from home? But more broadly, current circumstances are opening the way to a more ambitious debate: isn't it more useful and interesting to work from home on a long-term basis?
This question is particularly relevant to entrepreneurs wishing to set up or expand a business. Among the windfall effects expected from the current epidemic, remote collaboration technologies should see a significant boom.
Let's find out everything you need to know to make the most of remote working! Here's how it works.
Well beyond the current circumstances linked to the Covid-19 epidemic, remote working is booming thanks to the rise ofself-employment and new digital collaborative tools.
On the whole, this new form of organization allows you to be more flexible, toadapt your working hours more easily to your family constraints, and to enjoy greater independence. For women, it often enables them to better reconcile their professional and family obligations.
The first step is to build a solid project, by carrying out anin-depth marketstudy. The aim is to understand the state of your offer and how it fits with demand in the competitive landscape.
Secondly, the business plan must enable the creator to ask the right questions, and is conceived as a genuine management tool.
This first step should be relatively short, but above all, clear!
Start by presenting your market, the market suitability of your service offering, and your projected financial statements. This document also shows your financing requirements, total expenses, income and break-even point.
Several activities are particularly conducive to remote working, in particular consulting and e-commerce-related jobs. e-commercewriters, translators, community managers, administrative and other intellectual professions. For example, business coaches, consultants, accountants, administrative staff, etc., are likely to be able to work remotely without hindrance. With the exception of pleadings, this also applies to lawyers, notaries, chartered accountants, banking and insurance professionals.
You can work from home as a freelancer or as an employee. In the latter case, the work is supervised by your company. Employers are obliged to comply with legislation on the legal duration of working hours, and must make sure that this does not in any way constitute a practice that takes up the employee's free time.
Employers are also required to provide their employees with all the tools they need to work remotely (computer, keyboard, mouse, access to software, etc.).
If you're self-employed, you have complete freedom of organization. All you need to do is set up and register your company properly.
Working from home also presents a number of pitfalls, starting with the risk of isolation, and the gradual loss of social relationships. This is a major drawback to be avoided at all costs.
It is also not possible to domicile your business in your own home for more than 5 years. After that, you must either rent business premises or domiciliation of your company.
Many entrepreneurs choose this second solution for its simplicity, flexibility and low cost.
With our company domiciliation service, you can take advantage of a wide range of prestigious addresses in the best districts of Paris and other major French cities!
Domiciliary companies also offer a wide range of essential services to make life easier for entrepreneurs: day-to-day mail management, switchboard, meeting room rental, administrative and legal assistance, etc.
With SeDomicilier, you can obtain a certificate of domiciliation in less than 5 minutes, in a 100% online process. All your services are then available in a personalized, secure virtual office.
Business domiciliation allows you to focus on the missions with the highest added value: those that drive the growth and success of your project!
Written by our expert Paul LASBARRERES-CANDAU
March 16, 2020
