(Finance) – Never have so many Italian workers and never so old. This is what emerges from the report ‘The meaning of work in the productive and urban community of Bologna’, created by Censis with the collaboration of Philip Morris and presented today in Bologna.
In November 2023 in Italy they were counted 23.7 million employed, the highest level ever recorded. But in ten years, between 2012 and 2022, the 15-34 age group has reduced by 360 thousand employed peoplewhile workers cat least 50 years of age increased by 2.7 million.
The Italians’ approach to work is also changing, according to which one must work to live and not vice versa: over three out of four (76.1%) they share that in Italy there is work, but it is poorly qualified and underpaid.
76.2% of young people are convinced that an additional commitment of an hour of work must have a compensation sufficient to justify giving up an hour of free time and 80% of employed Italians see work as a factor that, especially in the past, it has led to the neglect of personal interests, to the point of placing one’s well-being in the background.
As part of the research, a survey was conducted among employees of Philip Morris Manufacturing & Technology Bologna to analyze what the meaning of work is within company dynamics. What emerges is work seen as a right, but also as a personal contribution to something that goes beyond the confines of the workplace and is also reflected in the community (one in four employees says this); work as a factor of independence (43.2%), with particular relevance for the female component of employment (57.6%).