Italy: Eni strengthens its employee welfare scheme Quality of life at work The ‘Noi’ (Us) protocol signed by the multinational oil group and the trade unions puts new initiatives in place linked to employee well-being and health, parenthood and purchasing power support. Eni, often considered as a template company in Italy on this front, intends to reinforce its identity as a ‘caring company’ that places people centre stage. The group has about 21,000 workers in Italy.
Great Britain: Atom Bank permanently adopts the shorter four-day working week Quality of life at work After more than a year of testing the four-day working week, UK online retail bank Atom Bank has decided to permanently implement the shorter working period.…
Italy: Intesa Sanpaolo officially launches the four-day working week Quality of life at work Despite a breakdown in negotiations with the trade unions, Italy's largest bank and largest private sector employer (74,000 employees) has decided to offer some of its employees the opportunity to voluntarily work a ‘short week’, meaning working nine hours per day for four days per week. Intesa Sanpaolo's ‘new organisational model,’ which comes into force in January 2023, also provides for a change in hybrid work.
France: Air France joins forces with other companies to offer employees sustainable mobility options Quality of life at work As a founding member of two business associations dedicated to sustainable mobility in the area around the Paris region’s two main airports, Air France has implemented measures to facilitate the use of electric vehicles and to encourage its employees towards carpooling. These measures are producing results and combine with a plan presented by the government on 13 December.
Spain: BBVA looks to take care of teams’ emotional well-being Quality of life at work Spanish banking group BBVA is promoting an array of initiatives – from yoga lessons to mindfulness and knitting classes – that seek to bolster connections between staff members and raise awareness of the importance of looking after their physical and mental well-being. The push represents a response to the changes brought about by hybrid work.
Unilever testing the four-day week in Argentina and Australia Quality of life at work After having adopted the shorter working week in New Zealand, following an 18-month trial period, UK consumer good multinational Unilever (Dove, Knorr, Cif...), has announced the launch of a similar but larger-scale project in Argentina and Australia. About 1,700 additional employees will be able to experience the four-day working week.
United Kingdom: Marks & Spencer offers four-day week option to managers Quality of life at work The emblematic British retailer Marks & Spencer has unveiled a new flexible working proposition for more than 3,000 retail managers,…
Great Britain: Co-op supermarket group offers unlimited fertility leave Quality of life at work On 31 October, longstanding British consumer co-operative, Co-op, announced it was implementing a landmark policy that supports employees undergoing fertility treatment. The scheme will allow those undergoing treatment to take unlimited paid time off work to attend appointments. Partners of colleagues undergoing fertility treatment and employees using surrogacy will also be supported with paid leave to attend a number of appointments. The Co-op is advocating for the widespread introduction of fertility support policies.
Italy: remote work practised at 91% of large companies but only “true” agile working has positive effects Quality of life at work In 2022, 3.6 million Italian employees practised so-called “agile working”, marking a decline of 500,000 compared to 2021, a year during which there were more lockdowns due to the Covid-19 pandemic.…
Free EU: nearly half of workers feel more stressed since Covid-19 pandemic (survey results) Quality of life at work More than four in 10 European Union (EU) workers (44%) say their stress at work has risen since the pandemic, according to an OSH Pulse survey of EU Member States plus Iceland and Norway,…
