{"id":2743,"date":"2021-06-02T09:48:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T07:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insights.ieseg.fr\/?p=2743"},"modified":"2024-03-19T14:08:53","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T13:08:53","slug":"smile-you-are-connected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insights.ieseg.fr\/en\/resource-center\/management-society\/smile-you-are-connected\/","title":{"rendered":"Change \u2013 \u201cSmile, you\u2019re connected!\u201d by Aur\u00e9lie Leclercq-Vandelannoitte"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Although the arrival of networks and information technologies in the professional world is not new, the generalization of remote work has seriously reinforced their use by employees who are increasingly connected \u2013 sometimes too much. How can you manage your teams through their screens? How do you find the right balance between trust and control? What tools do companies have at their disposal? Aur\u00e9lie Leclercq-Vandelannoitte, PhD in management sciences, researcher at the CNRS and professor at I\u00c9SEG<\/a>, provides some answers.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By considerably accelerating the use of telework, the pandemic has only reinforced a strong trend. Remote networks, messaging, chat, mobile applications, broadband, virtual offices, tablets and laptops, 5G\u2026 by freeing managers and employees from the constraints of time and place, NICTs have profoundly changed professional practices. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is a kind of historical inversion, explains Aur\u00e9lie Leclercq-Vandelannoitte. After decades of bringing teams together in a centralized and collective location to ensure controlled production, technology makes it possible to bring work to employees wherever they are.\u201d Not without risk: \u201cThe danger is to privilege only reactivity to the detriment of reflection,\u201d says the researcher, mentioning some of the possible drifts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSome employees will become over-involved, others will become demotivated, believing that the reality of their work is made invisible by technology. The absence of direct human contact can go hand in hand with a loss of meaning, with workers sometimes feeling reduced to mere operators behind their screens. They are hyperconnected, yes, but to whom, to what and until when?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the full article in the latest issue of our magazine for professionals \u201cChange \u2013 A new way of talking business<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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