Because remote work shouldn’t be completely trashed
The analysis by Alessandra Servidori, professor of labor policies, member of the Steering Council for programmatic activity in the field of economic policy coordination at the presidency of the Council
Faced with the report on Confindustria's economic forecasts presented last week, reflections are incessantly piled up, because the demonstrations of these days against (speciously) the green pass are anachronistic and beyond any logic of common sense.
I believe it is fundamental to start from middle school: to include financial and economic education in the didactic modules to raise a generation of citizens aware of what the economic and political situation of our country means by studying.
Typhoon Sars-Cov-2 still breathes tenaciously after two years of incessant waves, but even if the institutions have struggled with difficulty, businesses have had the strength to restart, families have survived and now the charlatans want to compromise the rule of law, economic recovery, social peace with this idiocy of the "health dictatorship".
Draghi and his government hold the position for the protection of the vast majority of citizens who have been vaccinated, knowingly paying for the slowdown and often the blocking of various activities and supplies just as our economy rears its head and there are European resources. to spend.
Today we also ratify the progressive expulsion of citizenship with abstention from voting both in the first round and – worsened – in the second, by politics and institutions irremediably eroding the forms of authority, representation, knowledge, competence. Terrorist and defeatist reprisals, counter-demonstrations disguised as class struggle or electoral crutch seriously damage our country, which is hardly trying to regain the necessary development by the hair.
The rise in the Italian GDP is stronger than expected: Confindustria in the report presented foresees a + 6.1% in 2021, 2 points more than the April estimates , followed by a further + 4.1% in 2022. This robust restart of GDP, equal to more than + 10% in the two-year period, after almost -9% in 2020, would bring our economy back to above pre-crisis levels in the first half of 2022, in advance of initial expectations.
Although the recovery is proceeding faster than elsewhere, the gap with respect to the pre-pandemic is, at the moment, even wider than that of the other main partners because the fall of 2020 in Italy was greater. And then immediately applying a method of analysis – necessary to be able to plan a more tenacious resilience and relaunch – would offer us the opportunity to set the priorities of active territorial policies.
Well the law on equal pay and pay that travels sent to parliament even if in a modern country it still seems anachronistic duty to defend the equal rights of male and female workers with a mass of rules starting from the Constitution that already provide for compliance. It is even more anachronistic to have to use resources for a certification of gender equality to be measured and possibly even rewarded for the so-called virtuous companies. It is essential and immediately not only to monitor but rigorously measure at national level the wage dynamics, incentive systems, policies for the insertion of new graduates, indicators of collective variable bonuses, diffusion of corporate welfare measures, the differences in the strategies adopted attributable to the characteristics of the company (size and sector) rather than its geographical location.
Conversely, territorial specificity affects two aspects, as emerges from a Confindustria study : the use of remote work (the differences can be very pronounced, for example, between companies located in metropolitan areas rather than in isolated areas of small provinces) and salary levels by professional profile (the concentration of certain jobs in a limited area can fuel policies of attraction for certain figures and overheat salaries and wages). In these two areas, therefore, recording the results relating to the territory becomes a formidable active policy tool.
Important news must emerge, as a report by Assolombarda points out: the first is a direct consequence of the exceptional situation created by the emergency, which obviously affected hours and absences from work. Because the unique circumstances (very different closure measures by sector and territory, exceptional use of social safety nets, etc.) have necessarily complicated information without realistic possibilities of comparison both with the past and, in perspective, with the future. And the in-depth study on the use of smart working (an organizational method that the extraordinary circumstances that have arisen have placed at the center of the debate) from a point of view that only the remuneration survey, collecting individual information, makes it possible, asks a question to be answered immediately: which tasks are best suited to be carried out remotely?
And the other big and important issue is that of diversity and inclusion, which is of growing relevance and for which we must have carried out governance of the diffusion between companies and obviously devote a lot of attention and adequate organizational methods to be applied.
Finally, we must begin to be autonomous and not depend only on foreign studies and organizations for international comparison information, especially in support of companies that have a high degree of international openness and must have information on both the local labor market and that of others. Villages.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/economia/perche-non-va-cestinato-del-tutto-il-lavoro-da-remoto/ on Mon, 18 Oct 2021 08:48:23 +0000.