More and more companies are investing in smart working. According to annual bulletin of the Excelsior information system of Unioncamere and Anpal, the data grew compared to 2018 (+23,5%) and follow a consistent increase trend, destined to grow further in the future.
Before the lockdown, one in four companies invested in the adoption of smart working systems to innovate their corporate organizational model.
On the national territory, the area of the country in which companies have mostly focused on remote working is the Noon. An opportunity offered by technology to fill other structural gaps.
They have invested in favor of this organizational method 27,1% of southern companies. Followed by the North West, with 24,1%, the North East with 23,5% and the remaining 23% in the Centre.
And not all sectors have been able to adapt to the introduction of smart working in the same way. The most receptive area is that of Public utilities (electricity, water, gas), in which the 34,7% of companies declared that they had invested in smart working, followed by that of Services, with the 25,5%, Industry with 22,5% and, lastly, Construction with 19,9%.
As for the world of services, they have invested in agile working approx 50% of IT and telecommunications services companies48,8% of financial and insurance services companies and 40,3% of advanced business support services.
Instead, they only looked at this remote working method 15,7% of cultural, sporting and other personal services businesses and the 17,9% of accommodation and catering services and tourist services.
In the industrial system, on the other hand, they have focused on agile work 33,3% of the electrical, electronic, optical and medical industries, the 32,8% for the chemical, pharmaceutical and petroleum industries and the 29,6% of the machinery manufacturing industries.
What makes the difference, however, is the size class of the companies. The innovation of smart working concerns, above all large companies: 53,1% of companies with more than 500 employees, 50,3% of companies between 250 and 499 employees and 41,8% of companies between 50 and 249 employees.
The percentage decreases for smaller companies: investments in smart working are noted only for 31,1% of companies with between 10 and 49 employees, and for 21,3% of those with between 1 and 9 employees.
However, smart working is only one of the possible organizational methods and new business models that our companies are adopting and made available to digital transformation.
