French citizens must work from home 3 days a week as COVID cases surge again
France is requiring that all citizens who can work from home do so for three days a week in January as the omicron variant causes a surge in coronavirus infections throughout the world.
French Prime Minister Jean Castex declared the new measure on Monday. This is the second time during the pandemic that France has set such a rule, first doing so between March and May of last year. Research shows that work-from-home slows the spread of the virus, and doesn't hamper productivity, but the discretion is often left to employers to let their workers do it — and many don't give them the option.
Additionally, Castex limited outdoor public gatherings to 5,000 attendees and banned eating and drinking on long distance mass transit. Schools, however, will continue to reopen as planned in January.
This news comes as France clocks in a record number of infections, averaging about 70,000 new ones a day, according to the country's coronavirus dashboard. On Saturday, France recorded more than 100,000 new infections, the highest number reported in the country since the start of the pandemic nearly two years ago.
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