Generali, the collapse of the Hadid Tower sign and more: smart working policy for business continuity

Today everyone is smart working. After the collapse of the brand , being able to communicate with workers who gravitate around the Citylife headquarters in Milan, has allowed the insurance company Generali to preserve at the same time the health and safety of people and operational continuity. With a simple union information and email to workers with which it switched to smart working mode, without having to go through the Caudine Forks of negotiations that would certainly have delayed operations. It is not a question of cynicism, but of health and safety and operations, in this case. In others of social and environmental sustainability. Issues that represent a concrete risk in companies and cities and on which smart working can act as a real insurance policy.

Among the multinationals most sensitive to health and safety issues, as demonstrated by the over 6,000 annual exercises carried out in the various offices to get used to safe behavior, Eni, in one of the first smart working agreements it signed with the unions, has included a chapter entitled smart working for extraordinary situations which provides for the company to have the possibility, even at a territorial level, to resort to agile work for continuous or fractionated temporary periods, according to the organizational methods it deems most appropriate, promptly informing the unions. Among these, Eni's agreement also indicates the causes of force majeure, for example particular situations such as disasters (from snow with consequent road or transport blocks), pandemic events, meteorological events, events of national and international importance such as the Jubilee.

And it is precisely to the Jubilee, an event of global dimension that the framework agreement of the municipality of Rome refers, together with the Lazio Region and the Metropolitan City with the employers' and trade unions' organizations to promote and strengthen smart working among public and private employees during the Jubilee period in order to be able to manage the increase in traffic and the critical issues of mobility in the capital by offering workers the possibility of working remotely to a greater extent.

The stories are different but they have in common the fact that, whatever you think about smart working and the union agreements that provide for it, having it and having them or not can make a difference in operational management. In the first case it can be guaranteed, in the second, especially in large companies there is the issue of the technological predisposition of the work organization and the union agreement. With an email Generali has switched to smart working mode - which is planned for 3 days a month and is part of the broader Red working plan, which almost all of its people adhere to (98%) - making workers and operations safe. Like a policy.