Home » HR practices » Quality of life at work » Siemens Italia completely transforms its offices with a groundbreaking flexible working time system Siemens Italia completely transforms its offices with a groundbreaking flexible working time system “New Siemens Office” was launched in Italy in 2011. In 212, it won the Buone Pratiche HR award, handed out by the Italian Association for Personnel Management (AIDP). Now covering 1,700 employees in offices in Milan, genoa, Padua, Turin, Bologna, Florence and Rome, the new system relies on mobile and flexible objective-based work, with a new way to organize the workspace. As a result, work-life balance is improved, with definite advantages in terms of employee satisfaction, corporate drawing power and cost cutting. Liliana Gorla, Director of Human Resources at Siemens Italia, tells Planet Labor about this “good HR practice” that is already a reference in the Italian context, where smart working is still quite rare. Through . Published on 09 April 2014 à 10h30 - Update on 09 April 2014 à 10h30 Resources Objectives. With a “radical change in the way salaried work is conceived and thought,” Siemens mostly wanted to create an appealing environment for young generations that enter the labor world. For them, “work-life balance isn’t dream, as it was for my generation that has been working for 20 years, but a prerequisite,” Liliana Gorla. This version of smart working, “more common in consultancy or computing firms, but rare in an industrial company like ours, so it’s a major competitive advantage for us,” she says. The parent company defined guidelines for the system and then each country adjusted them to its own specificities. In Italy, a 3-month pilot project started in January 2011, tested in HR offices,… Need more info ? Contact mind's on-demand study service Which service do you want to contact :WritingCommercial serviceTechnical SupportFirst name Last name Organization Function email* Object of the message Your messageRGPD J’accepte la politique de confidentialité.EmailThis field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. Essentials Les dernières publications Supporting parenthood in the workplace: a win-win strategy Supporting employee carers: a CSR challenge Analyzes Les dernières publications Paternity leave: data observations from 41 countries EU: during H1 2022 five EU Member States have raised their minimum salary levels