Seen with the eyes of innovation, the votes for the Quirinale have the charm of things from the past: there is nothing digital in the process, of course; meetings between leaders also happen in person, and there is no social debate or any live streaming of the meetings. The world seems motionless and instead everything around it has changed.
Even the idea that the work week should be five days is changing. A pillar that has stood for just over a century, since the concept of the weekend gradually took hold (the first to establish a five-day work week was a mill where cotton was produced in New England in 1908, but it took another thirty ‘ years for a law valid for all). Well now it seems that things are changing: the experimentation of four-day working weeks with the same salary is spreading all over the world, but not in Italy. The first results say that people are more productive, more efficient and happier. Or maybe they are more productive and efficient because they are happier.
According to the Financial Times, it is above all young and female managers who encourage this turnaround that was favored by the covid that has revolutionized our habits, including working habits, paving the way for smart working and a work idea that rewards people’s responsibility by giving them more autonomy. Who will be the first to try it in Italy?