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Dg Bianchi: remote work imposed by the Coronavirus “an opportunity to attract talent to the South and stop the flight but services are needed.” The proposal for a package of support measures to bring graduates back to the South
Dg Bianchi: remote work imposed by the Coronavirus “an opportunity to attract talent to the South and stop the flight but services are needed.” The proposal for a package of support measures to bring graduates back to the South
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45,000 employees have been working on smart work from southern Italy since the beginning of the pandemic for large companies in the center and north. These are the first results of a survey on the so-called Southworking (as the phenomenon of the transfer of external workers and students who have returned to their places of origin, especially in the South, due to the smart work imposed by the pandemic has been renamed), performed by Datamining on behalf of de Svimez.
Remote work for passengers of 100 high-speed trains
The study, included in the Svimez 2020 Report that will be presented on Tuesday, November 24, takes into consideration 150 large companies, with more than 250 employees, that operate in the different areas of the North Central in the manufacturing and services sectors. The 45,000 employees working remotely from southern Italy are equivalent to the passengers on 100 high-speed trains and could only represent the tip of the iceberg. Taking into account also SMEs with more than 10 employees, much more difficult to detect, Svimez estimates that the phenomenon may have involved, during the first total closure, around 100,000 workers from the south, therefore, a significant part of the approximately two million employees from the South currently working in the Center-North.
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A way to bring young graduates back to the south
The survey also shows that, considering companies that used smartworking in the first three quarters of 2020, either in full or in any case for more than 80% of employees, around 3% saw their employees work in southworking. Being able to offer workers from the South employed in the Center-North the possibility of working from their respective territories of origin could constitute an unprecedented and very suitable tool for the reactivation of those processes of accumulation of human capital blocked for too many years for the South and for areas. peripherals of the country. The Svimez Report proposes the identification of a target of potential beneficiaries of the southern labor measures. Interventions should focus on the objective of returning to the South the young graduates from the South (25-34 years) who are employed in the Center-North. Using Istat data on the workforce and those related to the survey on the professional integration of Italian graduates, it is estimated that the number of potentially interested young people would amount to about 60 thousand young graduates.
Yes to return if work continues remotely
The chapter on distance work in the South of the Svimez Report was created in collaboration with the Southern Workers’ association Lavorare dal Sud founded by the young Palermo and southern worker Elena Militello. According to the Association’s data, 85.3% of those interviewed would leave or return to live in the South if they were allowed to and if it were possible to keep their jobs remotely. It is, explains Militello in the Report, a reality that already has 7,300 people registered on the Facebook page, with an audience of about 30,000 people each month. From this research, carried out on a sample of 2,000 workers, it appears that around 80% are between 25 and 40 years old, have high degrees, mainly in Engineering, Economics and Law, and in 63% of the cases, have a indefinite employment contract.
Low cost of living and affordable housing.
Among the advantages that workers perceive most when they are proposed to move to the southern areas, the main ones are the lower cost of living, followed by the greater possibility of finding low-cost housing. In terms of disadvantages, there are lower quality health and transportation services, fewer career opportunities, and fewer services for the family. According to the Datamining survey, most of the companies interviewed believe that the main advantages of southworking are the greater flexibility in working hours and the reduction of fixed costs of physical locations. But, at the same time, he believes that the biggest drawbacks are the company’s loss of control over the employee; the necessary investment to be made by the company; Cyber security problems. Therefore, the study highlights some policy tools to meet the demands of companies: tax or contributory incentives for companies in the Center-North that activate Southworking, reduction of contributions, specific tax credit for activated jobs, prolonging the decrease from Irap in the South to those who use workers from the South as a percentage of activated stations, creation of coworking areas promoted by the AP.
