2023-07-25 11:34:50
A significant part of Spanish companies are having a hard time scratching their pockets to compensate their employees for expenses when telework. Despite the fact that the law obliges companies to provide material or a compensatory bonus to their employees, the 42,5% of those who telework regularly affirm that they do not receive any payment from their company, according to the latest report published this Tuesday by the consultant and ETT Adecco.
The new remote work law, in force since 2021, explicitly establishes that remote work may in no case entail an additional outlay for workers, as long as they exercise the 30% or more of your day from home. Which is to say, in a five-day work week, two or more days a week.
Most of the collective agreements that have been renewed since the entry into force of the regulation already incorporate clauses of some kind to contemplate the issue of teleworking expenses. Without going any further, last week the employers and the CCOO signed the new list of offices and dispatches in Catalonia, which includes a payment of 1,5 euros per teleworking day.
Other sectors have established the business obligation to provide their employees with a minimum of equipment -computer, screen, ergonomic chair or mobile phone, among others- and in certain agreements there is a mixture of both.
The obligation to pay the expenses derived from teleworking has slowed down, among other things, the deployment of agreements to regulate this modality in companies. And it has also contributed, among other factors, to the fact that the number of employees who regularly work from home has decreased in the last year.
According to data collected by Adecco, through 3,992 interviews, three out of four workers Those consulted affirmed that their company has no longer provided them with the possibility of teleworking, while the remaining quarter have been able to. If we cross these data with those of the INE, currently 85% of companies do not telework on any day, compared to 71.5% registered during confinement.
And, going back to the Adecco survey, when companies that could telework are asked what they have against this model, most do not know what to answer. 13.5% say that “the performance of the workforce has not been satisfactory”, 11.5% argue the issue of “higher costs” and 5.7% point out “too many difficulties in terms of occupational risk prevention”. While there is 69.2% who say they are against teleworking but do not argue why.
Poor prospects… but they will keep hiring
The sensations do not always end up fitting in with the actual progress of the economy and the perception that a company has of its immediate circle is not always extrapolated to the entire productive fabric. Proof of this were the statements made by various economic forums last summer, when they practically predicted a technical recession back from vacation and finally the economy continued to grow.
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And despite the fact that Spain is currently one of the EU countries for which the FMI has predicted greater growth in its GDP this year, the Spanish business park openly declares itself pessimistic on the future of the economy, according to the latest data compiled by Adecco. 60% of the companies believe that the evolution of employment this year will be worse than in 2022. While 32.45% think that it will be similar to what they experienced in the last year. And only 6.62% trust that things will get better in the coming months.
What collides with the hiring prospects that the companies later manifest. In other words, they think that in general corporations will hire less, but they will not. 51% of those surveyed by Adecco say that they will keep their templates as they are now, while 31.8% consider making new hires during 2023 (2.2% more than in 2022) and 17.2% are considering layoffs, layoffs or salary cuts.
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