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This paper discusses telework banalization. If telework dissimination is controversial, practices of telework may be idientified as banal. This is linked with loss of specificities concerning work and residential mobility, but also in relation with integration into the ordinary system. Discussion is supported by a scientific review, by data concerning case of full-time telework located in Gers (called Soho solo), by a qualitative survey about part-time telework in Safran Nacelles Group (site of Le Havre) and by the analysis of the ordinance n° 2017-1387, included in the labour law, 22th september 2017.

In a research devoted to ways of periurban living (Aguilera et al, 2014), we have collected material to question 3 aspects : territory - technical networks (ICT, automotive) - daily mobility, based on statements of thirty-one households living in Paris suburb (Haute Vallée de Chevreuse, Brie Boisée, Carnelle Pays de France). Starting with the management of uncertainty and the role played by ICT in said issue, we found that ICT enables the individual to elect a double position to face uncertainty. ICT is a clear progress to face uncertainty of transport network, we outline that it also ensures flexibility in activity program. The conclusions of this first part led to open the spectrum and analyse ICT in suburban ways of living. ICT are not seen as the tool to manage temporal and spatial tension between distance and proximity, typical of suburban areas. Nevertheless, they go together with an improvement of territorial household appropriation. Their use still largely advisory is subject to the links that individuals develop with the territory and does not replace it. This technical appropriation does not prevent from assuming that ICT will ultimately play a territorial adapter role similar to the one played by automobile.

This paper aims to describe an innovative country profile based on the study of the Soho Solo experience conducted in the department of Gers since 2001. This local development plan supports the setting up of teleworkers and their families. Public players’ objectives, uses of internet based on local opportunities concerning technology and public funds improve an original concept which can be developed only in the rural society. In order to talk about this concept as an innovative concept, we have analyzed features of teleworkers interested in and the first special effects.

Relationships between teleworking and routine are often implied. Teleworking might be a mean to regain one’s daily time. Results of an exploratory research allow to describe for the first time mechanisms at work. We study case of the experience called "Soho solo" (department of Gers) that brings teleworkers in full-time at home. It's quite common to say teleworking gives freedom. This study shows how this claim is verified, its limitations.