How teleworking affects our way of life and where it evolves.

Teleworking can be the great opportunity for villages with little population or none to resurface like a phoenix. And, the Spaniards look towards rural Spain to inhale fresh air every time they open their window after a work day at home.

From the moment we get up until we are used to see our workplace, for those people who telework can be an ordeal every day, and in regard to mental health it can be altered . Before, employees opted for teleworking to reconcile personal life with work, that is, an choice, unlike what is now, an obligation. We have passed since 2018 with 3.2% of the population teleworking to 36% in this year, because of the Coronavirus.

Many of the teleworking people, for fear of dismissal, have decided, on their own, work outside the schedule or ignore digital disconnection . In addition, we can think that we save ourselves time to go to work, we save money in gasoline, we can be more attentive to our children or pets, etc. Although it seems that everything is advantages, throughout the days we can notice that we are less effective teleworking, we feel stress, we become addicted to work, we are irritable, insecure, anxious. The solution to this is a good organization , make breaks , not work with pajamas, communicate with your classmates, perform sports periodically, but what is carried in this pandemic is to move to small villages.

After the avalanche of city people settling in rural areas, they have been forced to improve their internet connectivity . Whether they have second homes or for teleworking to be as comfortable as possible, the people of Ciudad take the great opportunity to change their residence for a more natural space. While a rent in Madrid is around € 900, in the villages it is around € 250, a great opportunity to telework and save in the process.

Mayor Luis Fernando de Patrana, a town in Guadalajara that has 850 inhabitants, has prepared a local employment plan to guarantee communication services both to their countrymen and their new tenants from cities to telework. In addition, the peoples of the community of Castilla y León are added to the initiative such as San Esteban de la Sierra and Fuentes de Béjar, installing free spaces in their respective municipalities for coworking (collaborative work for independent professionals, entrepreneurs, and SMEs from different sectors), equipped with broadband so that people come from Madrid and Salamanca can have broadband connectivity.

Many peoples are not equipped with a wiring system to have the Internet, and therefore has to be done with a satellite connection, and an example is the people of Béjar Fuentes that asks large telephone companies to take measures so that infrastructure and broadband and internet service is installed in the town so that companies such as road safety, meat industry, consulting and teleworking can be settled without connectivity problems. The mayors see as a unique moment to repopulate their municipalities and will do everything possible to make it so.

According to Rafael Pastor, commissioner of the Community of Madrid for the revitalization of rural municipalities: "The rural world can win the lost population. But it has to promote entrepreneurship, coworking , shops, leisure and quality restoration. And offer the comforts of a city with the added value of healthy environment."

Another town located 100 km from the capital, Somosierra, with 87 inhabitants, where the cases of positives for Coronavirus are void and thanks to citizen awareness, it is being the point of sight of teleworkors. The pool, a town in Castilla y León is another town, where it has grown both in people who come by second homes and those that come from large cities to settle from Madrid or Valladolid, such is the case that already adds with 33 new registered and adding.

But initiatives do not only come by the peoples. This is the case of the great Hiberus technological consultant. With the name of "Operation Turn a house" Hiberus aims to facilitate professionals in the technological sector, who emigrated from rural areas to the big city, the return to their hometown . To make it come true, Hiberus will open ten delegations in poorly populated areas, for example, the first one has been Soria, which has received more than 100 employment candidates in a week. The initiative also extends to those who want a change of work environment winning as a life.

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