UniCredit participates in the Agile Work Week organized by the Municipality of Milan from 22 to 26 May.
The initiative aims to raise public awareness of the advantages that Agile Work brings to companies and communities, in terms of increased flexibility and productivity, reduced urban traffic, reduced travel times and stress, contributing to an improvement in the quality of life and a reduction in environmental pollution.
As in past years, the UniCredit Group is once again taking part in the initiative as evidence of its commitment to pursuing work-life balance policies and the company's positive experimentation with flexible working.
This week, around 150 workers in Milan from Group companies, based on the "teleworkability" of the job within the government and support structures, will work from a location other than the usual one (such as corporate hubs, branches or from their own homes for colleagues already in Smart Work).
The Agile Work Week is part of the many best practices that UniCredit has been implementing for years in the context of work-life balance policies, including:
– Teleworking: a working method favored by the adoption of IT and telematic tools; since 2008, the number of members has gradually increased and has had a positive development after the trade union agreements on the Business Plan of 2010 and 2014.
– Smart Working: in 2008 UniCredit launched a vast project for the reorganization of its offices called “Piani Città” which, with over 500.000 m7.000 of new office space to be created/renovated, represented an opportunity to rethink the way manage and experience working environments and times. As far as work environments are concerned, Smart Working at UniCredit takes place in two directions: desk sharing and activity based worksetting. The first applies the principles of the sharing economy to workspaces while the second makes specific and diversified environments available to people, designed to meet different needs: individual work, in teams, informal sharing, etc. With the implementation of the smart working model in the new workplaces, a general satisfaction is perceived from the people who live in more beautiful and better used spaces. With smart working you print less, with a consequent better use of resources and reduction of the environmental impact. To date, over 16.000 UniCredit employees can work in this way in Milan, Turin, Bologna, Verona, Munich, Frankfurt, Belgrade and Iasi, with a plan that targets around 2017 people in the three-year period 2019-XNUMX. As far as timing is concerned, employees who work in Smart Working mode, on the basis of an individual agreement that is renewable each year, can carry out their duties one day a week from home or from city hubs, shared corporate spaces located in a from
shorten the home-office distance. Smart Working represents a profound cultural change. It allows for ever greater integration between the various company functions, favoring contamination and transparency, while promoting ever greater autonomy in the management of activities. In this sense, Smart Working involves a change in leadership models; work control through the measurement of time spent in the office replaces trust and focus on results through true responsibility of all colleagues.
– Other forms of flexibility: one of the already known options is access to part-time work (which benefits approximately 10% of UniCredit employees in Italy). In addition, UniCredit makes available to all interested colleagues a series of improved treatments compared to the provisions of the Law/CCNL, including the possibility of taking advantage of unpaid leave for the inclusion of children in nursery school or kindergarten, to assist sick children (in addition to the provisions of the law) and to accompany minor children or non-self-sufficient relatives to medical visits. There is also the possibility of being absent for a sabbatical period, for a maximum duration of 24 months. Further concessions in the field of work/life balance are provided by the company crèches present in the large centers or conventions where there is no kindergarten.
