Innovate the way of working and favor the reconciliation between professional and private life by strengthening the relationship of trust with one's employees. With this objective, Generali Italia provides Smart Working in the Milan and Rome offices for around 1000 employees: the new, more agile and flexible way of working that best adapts to the contemporary rhythms of life.
Successfully completed the pilot project – Generali Italia won the Smart Working Award 2017 of theMilan Polytechnic Observatory – the program thus comes to life in Milan and, at the same time, is also launched for the first time in Rome. For 2 days a week, employees will be able to carry out their work even in places other than their usual place of workin accordance with normal business hours.
Gianluca Perin, HR and Organization Director of Generali Italia declares: “After the success of the pilot launched at the Milan office, which involved around 230 people, we decided today to extend it to an ever wider audience of employees in Milan and to also launch it about Rome. At this stage, we have found numerous benefits ranging from an overall improvement in the sphere of work-life balance with a reduction in travel times and costs, to greater motivation and job satisfaction. Benefits that for us translate into greater productivity and better organization of work: in fact, our People Strategy promotes new ways of working and a new managerial culture".
Through Smart Working - states a company release - Generali Italia introduces a new management philosophy, which offers flexibility and autonomy in the organization of work, in the face of greater accountability for results.
To facilitate daily work even away from the office, all Generali Italia smart workers are equipped with a complete technology package, which provides, among other tools available, e-collaboration platforms and software for audio and video communications. Furthermore, the introduction of this new way of working is accompanied by ad hoc training on health and safety issues in Smart Working, and by workshops to explore Change Management and new ways of working.
The initiative is part of Generali Italia's welfare programme, one of the most advanced on the market in terms of completeness, coverage and innovation. Designed to increase people's well-being and satisfaction, the Company's welfare system includes all 12 welfare areas (identified by the Welfare Index Pmi, which aims to spread the culture of welfare among small and medium-sized enterprises) by offering more than 70 company benefits: from the Energy program for health and well-being to company kindergartens, through storytelling courses and temporary shops, up to support for the purchase of a first home.
