Due to the impact of the pandemic, as tourism levels dropped and remote work entered the mainstream, many countries began to introduce special visas to attract foreign workers. Estonia was the first, but the list is getting longer everyday
Imagining
A new book published by Franco Angeli entitled Basta chiacchiere! Un nuovo mondo del lavoro (Enough Talk! A new world of work) identifies the key challenges that every business sector is facing in the wake of the pandemic, from agile work to the need for new models and improved labour protection. We take a closer look with Luca Solari, Professor of Organisation Theory at Milan University.
To change the market, you have to be in the market. How? By learning from the B-Corps, as explained by economist Pedro Tarak, one of the world’s most prominent ambassadors of the Benefit Corporation’ movement
In the words of the Director of Employment, Labour and Social Affairs at the OECD: To recover from the crisis post Covid, we have to build fairer labour markets and focus on the new generations.
In the wake of the health crisis, many people decided to work remotely from Italy’s southern regions switching between a laptop and a dip in the sea. Some intend to return to the city as summer ends, others plan to stay
The digital transformation was already changing the world of work. Then came Covid-19 and the change accelerated. The key to dealing with this revolution lies in the new skills that the market is demanding. An event organized by the Automation & Testing specialist trade fair together with the Adecco Group covered this very topic: Skills in the digital age .
From Great Britain to Italy, proposals are being made to reduce working hours to combat the labour crisis and redistribute work. What’s the best way forward?
Airbnb, Uber, WeWork & the largest companies in the sharing economy have been badly hit by Covid-19. Has the sharing economy reached the end of the line? We asked Marta Mainieri, founder of Collaboriamo.org and curator of Sharitaly
We have all been quick to learn how to use online collaboration tools and video-conferencing systems. But compared to face to face communication, this needed a different, perhaps even emotive, approach
These months of lockdown have shown how workers have adapted to new organisation models and put the spotlight on often underrated roles like riders
Even after lockdown ends, many companies are still thinking in terms of a distributed office: employees working in the office, from home and from shared workspaces. The new post-Covid workplaces will rely on technology
Former minister Fioramonti explains the idea at the core of his book The World after GDP’: To achieve economic growth, the economic system of the future will need to optimize production and consumption instead of maximizing them, as is the case today
Our country should stop selling cars with diesel or petrol engines by 2035 and switch to electric cars. New skills, new professional profiles and more research will be needed
“Psychology and the Good Life”, taught by Laurie Santos at Yale, has become the most popular course in the history of the prestigious American university. Yet there is no shortage of examples in Italy as well
Software developers, engineers and computer scientists will be leading the first phase of creating a virtual reality for avatars. But eventually a detailed world will have to be created, and this will only be possible with architects, designers, mathematicians and many other professional profiles.