Smart work, 480,000 jobs: growth of large companies and IPs, stability of SMEs

In Milan, Generali completed the dismissal of its employees in CityLife's new Hadid tower. While waiting for the employees, there were not the usual fixed positions, but work places that must be released the evening and the next day may be occupied by someone else. And their number is lower than that of workers, because it is also possible to work two days a week at home. A choice made for some time also by Siemens.

For large companies, the shift to smart and agile work is complete, which, as noted byObservatory of intelligent work of the Ecole polytechnique de gestion from Milan, a little over a year after the approval of the law in Italy, continues to grow in large companies and also in the Palestinian Authority.

Intelligent workers now account for 480,000 people, up 20%, and consider themselves more satisfied with traditional workers both for work organization (39% vs. 18%) and for relations with colleagues and superiors (40% against 23%). %).

The impact of the new legislation is weak

However, it is difficult to attribute great merit to the new legislation. In fact, only 6% of large companies consider their impact to be positive, 49% do not say "no impact" and 45% even consider it negative especially for the complication in the communication transmission processes and the adaptation of individual agreements and policies. The AP is more divided on the subject: 27% see a positive impact, 43% no impact, 30% negative.

Despite this, more than one large company in two (56% of the sample) has launched structured intelligent work projects, while SMEs do not offer any significant sign: here, smart work is stable compared to 2017 8% have structured projects and 16% inform them. Unlike other types of organizations, however, among SMEs, the number of organizations totally disinterested in its introduction remains high (38%).

The most common model among large companies includes only the option to work remotely, a choice adopted by 53% of companies, while the remaining 47% support remote work by rethinking spaces. Unlike the workplace, 45% of large companies choose to give people full autonomy and freedom of choice. The other organizations prefer to indicate the authorized places in the intelligent work project: the most widespread are the worker's home (80%), the other offices of the company (74%), the coworking spaces (58%) and the places (52%). %).

In the public administration, 8% of public bodies launched structured projects (5%), 1% did so informally, 8%, on the other hand, plans to launch initiatives next year. The majority, however, is firm: in 36% of the AP, intelligent work is absent but should be introduced, in 38% of cases, 7% are not concerned.

Yet, he emphasizes Mariano Corso, Scientific Director of the Observatory "The potential economic and social benefits of adopting agile work models are enormous.It is possible to estimate a productivity increase of 15% per worker, a reduction in the rate of 20% absenteeism, savings of 30% on the costs of managing physical spaces for initiatives leading to rethink work spaces and improve performance, work-life balance for around 80% of This is why the revolution must not be stopped, but rather accelerate and promote the dissemination of initiatives in the various organizations present on the territory ".

From criticality the most common is the perception of a sense of isolation from office dynamics (18%), followed by the largest effort in business planning and emergency management (16%). Other difficulties are related to external distractions, such as the presence of other people at the workplace (14%), the need for frequent interactions in person (13%) and the lack of help. limited effectiveness of communication and virtual collaboration (11%). . On the other hand, very few smart workers have difficulty using agile work-related technologies. 14% say it's okay There are no critical issues. Outside the office, it's better.