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35 Best Workplaces in Italy
from TWSM#8
Event 35 Best Workplaces in Italy
Companies and Employees: Communication is a Must
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By GILBERTO DONDÈ
This past year’s “Best Italian Workplaces” survey offers some interesting insight into employees’ thoughts on the importance of professional life/personal life balance and the commitment of companies to meeting their employees’ expectations for a comfortable and balanced work environment.
Every year, tens of thousands of employees of Italian companies provide their assessment on the quality of their organizations in terms of excellence of their workplace: it is on the basis of their perceptions on many factors that characterize the relationships within the work environment, that helps form the ranking of "Best Italian Workplaces.”
Rather than focusing on levels of satisfaction among employees, this time we want to focus our discussion on the comments that people make in the questionnaires. These comments are a tool available to them to report the issues that they most care about both in terms of excellence or of ideas to improve the quality of the workplace.
Following up on this, in 2011, the most “popular” themes were those related to the commitment of companies to making efforts to research the best ways to improve the relationship between work/ professional and personal/family life. This was accompanied by a request by employees of a benefit offer targeted to better care of the employee within a company both in professional terms (safety, comfortable environment, less stressful job, relaxation) and personal terms (conventions, language training for the family, studying holidays, etc.).
Another very hot topic for workers is the companies’ teamwork, the sense of helping, of being in environments where other workers are also friends; this is a declared need that is much more felt today than in the past. Perhaps it is sign of uncertainty and instability atmosphere that surrounds our society that pushes people to be members of a group and to find, in companies where they spend the majority of their time, a cardinal place to turn to in times of need. We welcome, in the ranking of the best companies to work for in Italy, seven new entries - Carglass®, EMC Corporation, Iprona, Jobrapido, Loacker Remedia®, NaturalLook Srl, Oxyprod - and we welcome back two companies that had already been part of this group of excellence, Decathlon Italy Srl and Fater Spa.
In the delicate situation in which the economy is finding itself today, the attention of employees towards a company’s work/life balance and benefits systems is palpable.
Nevertheless, many comments were made and they highlight how companies paid a lot of attention in preserving the jobs of their employees as much as possible, and in helping them and their families face this difficult moment in a more peaceful way.
Because, it is certain, that at this time, everyone has fears about their job. •
I’d like my workplace to be a place where my work identitydoesn’t differ from my own.
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