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remote work [2 records]

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Record 1 2021-08-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Working Practices and Conditions
  • Labour and Employment
  • Collaboration with the OQLF
DEF

Professional activities performed outside the employer's offices by means of information and telecommunication technologies.

OBS

Telework is most often performed at home.

OBS

remote work; remote working: Some authors consider that these terms are rather synonymous with the term "long-distance telework."

PHR

telework agreement, telework arrangement

Key term(s)
  • tele-work
  • tele-working
  • tele-commuting

French

Domaine(s)
  • Régimes et conditions de travail
  • Travail et emploi
  • Collaboration avec l'OQLF
DEF

Activité professionnelle qui s'exerce en dehors des bureaux de l'employeur au moyen de technologies de l'information et de la télécommunication.

OBS

Le télétravail s'exerce le plus souvent à domicile.

PHR

entente de télétravail, régime de télétravail

Key term(s)
  • télé-travail

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Prácticas y condiciones de trabajo
  • Trabajo y empleo
  • Colaboración con la OQLF
DEF

Trabajo que se realiza desde un lugar fuera de la empresa utilizando las redes de telecomunicación para cumplir con las cargas laborales asignadas.

OBS

teletrabajo: La Fundación del Español Urgente (Fundéu BBVA), con el asesoramiento de la Real Academia Española, recomienda escribir el término "teletrabajo" en minúscula, todo junto y sin guion.

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Record 2 2020-07-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Working Practices and Conditions
CONT

[The term] "long-distance telework" refers to situations where management allows an employee to telework full-time while located so far away from the designated workplace that it would not be reasonable or feasible for the employee to come to work if required on short notice.

OBS

remote work; remote working: Some authors consider that these terms are rather synonymous with the term "telework."

Key term(s)
  • long-distance tele-work
  • long-distance tele-working
  • long-distance tele-commuting

French

Domaine(s)
  • Régimes et conditions de travail
CONT

[Le terme] «télétravail à longue distance» renvoie aux situations où la direction autorise un employé à faire du télétravail à temps plein bien qu'il se trouve trop loin du lieu de travail désigné pour qu'il soit raisonnable ou possible de s'attendre à ce qu'il puisse s'y présenter dans un court délai.

Key term(s)
  • télé-travail à longue distance
  • télé-travail à grande distance

Spanish

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