Mariano Corso, Scientific Director of the Smart Working Observatory of the Politecnico di Milano: The key to smart working is a result-driven culture no longer based on old employment paradigms. This is the only way to stimulate creativity and cultivate talent.
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The Scientific Director of the PTP Science Park in Lodi is one of the few women at the helm of an Italian scientific organization: We’re equals when we are at university, and then the men go into management and the women become teachers. Who is to blame? Those who don’t know how to explain to girls that science is within their skills and creativity.
After twenty years and four reforms, we are still one of the world’s more rigid labour markets: a consequence of reforms that concerned only part of the workforce. One of the many (too many) things that we lack to be (at least) on a European level
The workforce is ageing, but seniors are more than just seniors now. And ageing is not the same as before. Much depends on companies.
There are over 400 co-working spaces in Italy, a wave that is revolutionising the world of work. Here’s why:
A conversation with the winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics: We have to rewrite market rules. Today, the system guarantees the accumulation of financial wealth, and discourages investment in the real economy
An all-round conversation with the Minister of Labour: The signs are positive, but there’s still a lot to do. Advice for young people? Focus on welfare and technology.
From the Treu Package (after the name of the minister who proposed it) to the Jobs Act, Italy is moving swiftly in the direction of flexibility, to ensure more mobility in the labour market. However, to sustain growth more active policies on employment are needed as well as a general reform of subsidies
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.