Reducing working time is the goal for the future of over 6 out of ten employed Italians.
And resignations are often an escape to a better job: among workers under 60 who resigned from their job, 67% moved to another job within three months
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These are the main results of the new Censis-Eudaimon report
on corporate welfare which describes the desire to work less and the dynamic job market as a "new Italian paradox".
The data indicate that 67.7% of employed Italians would like to reduce the time dedicated to work in the future: 65.5% of young people, 66.9% of adults and 69.6% of over 50s want this. Already today 30.5% of employed people (34.7% of young people) declare that they engage in work only as much as is necessary, refusing overtime, calls or emails outside working hours and carrying out only what is required of them task.
For 52.1% of employed people, work currently influences their private life less than in the past, because they dedicate themselves to activities and have values that they consider more important.
54.2% of young people, 50.1% of adults and 52.6% of elderly people share this condition.
Almost 28% gave up a better job than their current one because the location was too far from their home.
The Censis-Eudaimon report highlights the dynamism of the Italian labor market which sees a record level of employment and an increase in stability.
In this context, 81.8% of employed people know what corporate welfare is (32.7% precisely and 49.1% in broad terms), while in 2018 it was 60.2%.
In this context, corporate welfare, according to the report, "can become one of the best tools for retaining or attracting workers".
Among the workers who benefit from it, 84.3% would like it to be strengthened, and among those who do not benefit from it, 83.8% would like it to be introduced in their company.
Furthermore, 79.5% of employed people would appreciate a salary increase in the form of one or more welfare benefits.
In general, 61.5% of employed people consider the company's attention to be adequate in relation to the needs of workers with children, 71% to the needs of women returning from maternity leave, 62.9% to the needs of people with poor health fragile, and 52.3% to the basic conditions of workers, such as safety.
Instead, for 61.7% of those employed, the company is not attentive enough to the general psychophysical well-being of all workers, even those without specific problems.
The employees (62.3%) and workers (68.4%) underline this lack of corporate attention the most.
Resignations are increasing in the first year of a child's life
Parents' resignation from work in the first year of their children's life involved over 61,000 people in Italy in 2022, a sharp increase from 2017, when there were 39,738.
And the professional cost of children for mothers remains higher in Italy than in other large European countries, according to the Censis-Eudaimon report.
The employment rate of women with children is 58.6%, that of men with children is 89.3%.
The gap to the detriment of women is -30.7 percentage points, while in Germany it is -17.4, in France -14.4, in Spain -19 and in Greece -29.1.
In 2022, resignations and consensual terminations from work relating to parents with children up to one year of age involved 44.7 thousand mothers and 16.7 thousand fathers.
Regarding the reasons for resignation, 41.7% of mothers and 2.8% of fathers resigned due to difficulty in reconciling work with childcare due to the lack of care services, and 21.9% of mothers and 4.3% of fathers due to difficulties in reconciling work and childcare due to problems related to work in the company.
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