Telecommuting, Italy lagging behind are only 800,000 people now work from home online.
expected growth by 2011 will be 7%
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| phone and laptop and the work can be done comfortably from the table at home or anywhere there is a connsione Web
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In Italy the spread of telework is far less than other European countries. Only last year, Italy had just over 800 000 home workers, or persons employed, part-time or full-time, their work from home via the internet or "remote", that is a place other than its registered company. In 2007 there were approximately 700 000, representing about 3% of the total number of employees. A growing number, an estimated 7% more on average in 2007/2011, but still much lower than the rest of Europe. They are an example of Finland, the Netherlands and Sweden where more than one in four workers are working in remote (27.6%) or teleworking, the United Kingdom, Germany and Denmark, almost one in five ( 17.8%), whereas in Mediterranean countries (France, Spain and Italy) the average penetration rate in 2007 was 4.5%, a figure that even if negative, is expected to expand rapidly in this area, or of this new way of working with tools that everyone has now, computer and connection.
The European Union strongly encouraged this way of working since 2002 and puts pressure on member states to ensure that it flows in a capillary. In June 2004, Italy signed an agreement interconfederal, signed by Confindustria, unions and other compact 19 business associations, which gives the opportunity to work from home, and guarantee and warranty protections identical to those of colleagues in the office.
telework Why we did not take off? Once again an example of immaturity of Italy, you might say. In support and defense must, however, considering our economic model does not lend itself well to teleworking, although this only applies to certain areas. "Our economy relies heavily on manufacturing in this industry and the physical presence of the worker can not be eliminated, because the work is manual - explains Luca Solari, Professor of Organization and Human Resources Development at the University of Milan -. Our production facility is made up mainly of SMEs, small and medium-sized enterprises, and usually live near the company's employees. " But are other reasons for the delay and call into play the cultural resistance and the technological gap still strong. "In general - continues Solari - the employer Work does not like the fact that an employee is not physically present because you can not control it, see what he's doing. In Italy we are still anchored to the hierarchical bureaucratic model, we tend to want to have a physical check for the presence of the worker and the time worked. " In practice, it is dominant view that the worker, whether it's his job, it produces more and better than they would from home.
The solution is at hand. This legacy can be overcome by implementing a well working from home
type independent, or in which you are employed by an employer, but it operates independently. This is possible today, thanks to a big chain that giving ample space for free private initiative, allows anyone to start their own telework without even having to invest money. The technological gap for this type of activity is negligible, as it was out about 80% of Italian families own at least one PC at home and of these about 90% have a fast connection type. The barrier in the access network SIPU believe then crossed and is now affordable for everyone to have access to the Internet. There are many access points, or public or private places where, with a few euro or in most cases for free, you can have access to a networked computer. This type of telework has increased considerably 's
job and is closely connected with the online shopping
, another area that is growing considerably.
Yet you save. In fact there are success stories. "We are changing here - Landini says - and the increase in new areas is less than proportional to the growth in staff because, thanks to the fact that the employees that work in sedentary work
remote working, we were able to streamline office Depending on the way to work. For us it is a cost savings for the home. For the employee This means a gain in terms of time and gasoline because they must travel to get to the office. British Telecom, for example, after ten years of telework has saved 300 million euro spent on the buildings and 1,800 years of time travel for staff. " This is a real opportunity because the benefits are mlteplici also from the standpoint of environment and pollution that we select dell'abbatimento transport costs, not to mention the fact that, from the comfort of home, people can work even when sick (temporarily or with a disability). This new frontier of the work we can define telework
easy, because everyone's reach, both in terms of economic opportunities both in the absence of demand for specific skills: a telework for all!
And look at the performance of the employee gain is definitely still in favor of the company and where it is self-employed to the benefit of the same worker increases their profits and reduce costs. "Research - confirms Solari - indicate that the co-worker may work too." They've noticed the Italian Post Office, who initiated an experiment in the contact center and count in two years to have 500 employees in telework. 'The increase in the average productivity of our remote workers was around 30% - said Roger Parrott, head of training, internal communication of the -. We had a reduction in sick days and absenteeism by 25%. " The experiment of telework has gone well, so much so that in September it launched another project in the field of 'computer. "Twenty referents big computers that control the computer remotely work - says Parrott -. The success of the project won the first of the resistance leaders, who are accustomed to having workers neighbors. "
