Agile working is gaining ground in manufacturing companies. If in 2019, i.e. in the pre-Covid era, almost one in 10 member companies in Confindustria (one in five among large companies) had introduced forms of smart working (a figure almost double that of 2018, ed.); in 2020, 66.8% (practically two out of three companies), involving almost 40% of employees. More than a third of the sample surveyed at the time (2021) said they would maintain the agile working mode. And this is exactly how things turned out, as emerges from a new focus by CsC, the Confindustria Studies Centre, developed by labour market experts Giovanna Labartino, Francesca Mazzolari and Giovanni Morleo. These are the data presented during the event organised by Confindustria Smart working Road Map. Business competitiveness and well-being in the new era.

Today, 20.3% of Confindustria member companies, i.e. one in five, have continued to use remote work, or have declared that they will do so in the coming months, in line with the innovations contained in the protocol signed by the social partners in December 2021, and implemented by an initial procedural simplification operation launched by the Ministry of Labour (digital, mass mailing of individual agreements). The new deadline for sending agile work communications has slipped to 1 January, while a new, simpler system, using excel files, is announced from 15 December. "Smartworking has enormous potential in terms of improving competitiveness for companies and increasing organisational well-being for workers," stressed John Brugnoli, Confindustria vice president for human capital -. And an economy like ours, which retains a clearly manufacturing backbone, cannot be found unprepared and must somehow manage to govern and facilitate the transformation processes. In such a context, therefore, the main challenge in the labour market is the management of the so-called employment transitions to the new professions of the digital era. This is a process in which we will have to intelligently employ hybrid solutions of smart working and smart learning, because in addition to working smart, you can train and learn smart". The event, organised with the contribution of Fondirigenti, Space Work, Studio Toffoletto De Luca Tamajo and P&Co, was attended by representatives of companies, large ones such as Enel and Fater and new ones such as P&Co, a digital communication start-up.

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