What will happen to corporate welfare after the Coronavirus? This is what an ebook by Luca Pesenti and Giovanni Scansani asks, “Corporate welfare, now what?” published by Life and Thought and released these days with the precious preface by Marco Bentivogli, general secretary of the metalworkers of the Cisl and one of the most innovative leaders of today's union.
According to Bentivogli, the pandemic has forced us to change and reflect on new forms of work organization, both in the factory or in the office, and from home, but now a design vision is "urgent to immediately translate new welfare policies that are able to mitigate the effects of the crisis on the one hand and at the same time to guide the future". Certainly “the new welfare will have to be negotiated and directed towards an ecosystem that puts people, the company and the territory at the centre. Where health and safety are an integral part of a well-being that moves from the company to the community through territorial protocols and shared health plans. A welfare that also takes into consideration the review of the layout and ergonomics of the companies making them not only safe but also beautiful and sustainable, which makes the regeneration of the territory an integral part of this project through tangible and intangible infrastructures, harmonious and sustainable with the environment and people".
And again: "A welfare that makes training the intellectual currency, an essential and widespread element throughout the working life, capable of guaranteeing, together with health and safety, the true right to the future, for everyone. We need - concludes the leader of the metalworkers of the CISL - great social innovations, increasingly necessary in the face of the technological and cultural changes underway, which can only find form through bargaining and participation, determining factors for enhancing organizational well-being and welfare " and which allows us to definitively leave the twentieth century behind us.
