Workers in struggling companies can reduce their working hours and the government will pay most of their salary. Several other countries in Europe are looking at this model to deal with the impact of the Covid-19 crisis
Future of Work
These months of lockdown have shown how workers have adapted to new organisation models and put the spotlight on often underrated roles like riders
The jobs most in-demand are to be found in information technology, healthcare and the green economy. Though government support will also be needed
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
We spoke with Pierangelo Albini, Director of the employment department at Confindustria (the main association representing manufacturing and service companies in Italy) and Luigi Sbarra, Deputy General Secretary of the CISL (the second largest Italian confederation of trade unions). Here then are the points of view of the Unions and entrepreneurs.
Daniele Chieffi, Communication and PR Director for the Department for Innovation and Digitization of the Presidency of the Italian Council of Ministers, talks about the way that coronavirus has accelerated digital developments
From how to manage financing to the choice of partners, the definitive guide to doing business (and making it last)
Since the Italian government issued its first decree to contain the coronavirus outbreak on February 23, the number of agile workers in the country has risen to over a million. And the number is still growing. Arianna Visentini, co-author of the book Smart Working: mai più senza’ (Smart Working: never be without it), explains why smart working is a practice that should stay even after this emergency has passed.
The role of risk manager is gaining an ever higher profile in the running of today’s enterprises – especially in those with more advanced organisational structures, where carefully weighing up risks and investments becomes the main advantage to business success
Journalist Riccardo Luna tells us about his vision for the future of employment
The candidate for the US democratic party primaries has made a proposal for the institution of a basic income of one thousand euros for each citizen, to bolster the economy and abolish inequality. The concept is not new and has already been tested in various parts of the world (including Italy). The results are, however, contradictory. Here is why.
The 2020 budget law has introduced important news in terms of cost of labour, tax breaks for recruiting and some new important rules for working in tenders
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.