Vers de nouveaux territoires d'intervention: émergence et usages de la simulation du travail à distance.

Due to the constraints it has placed on businesses and society, the health crisis that broke out in 2020 has generated various forms of distancing from the workplace (confinement, teleworking, space occupancy gauges, etc.). In many sectors the continuity of economic activity has been achieved through the massive use of digital technologies, particularly videoconferencing. These new methods have reconfigured the work communities that traditionally practice face-to-face. It is therefore the territories of work, i.e. the ecosystems of relations that structure common productive action, which have been profoundly restructured. Ergonomists have not escaped these upheavals. Their territories of intervention have been shaken up to the same extent that the work territories of the beneficiaries of their services have been transformed. This article aims to report how new territories of intervention in ergonomics have been explored through the application of a professional gesture - the simulation of work - in a context where it could not be performed face-to-face. After clarifying the concepts of territory of intervention and recalling the methodological requirements of work simulation, we describe three interventions initiated in 2020 in the context of the pandemic. They reflect the birth and consolidation of remote simulation of work. Despite the distance, these interventions made it possible to examine three privileged areas of ergonomics: prevention advice, the design of work situations and training. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]