  After the considerable excitement caused by COVID-19 and the first telework
measures, many management issues became apparent and some questions quickly
arose, especially about efficiency of employees' work and conditions for
successful telework adoption. This study focuses on the following questions:
what is the new interest to telework for employees and what are the potential
reasons for this? How much employees feel able to do their work remotely now
and why? To answer these questions, we conducted a survey over several weeks,
that involved employees coming from different industries (N=170), in order to
collect their experience, skills and motivations for teleworking. The results
show that adoption of telework is real for the respondents. Those who have
experienced it present a strong motivation and a real capacity to use it, with
almost no technological barriers. The theoretical model that we used, based on
Technology Acceptance Models (TAM), has highlighted an important new factor of
telework adoption: time saved in commuting. The study points out that adoption
of telework could be sustainable for both public and private organizations, and
this requires a critical examination and discussion.
