Equity, well-being and development: the new way of conceiving work arrives in Turin

(Il Sole 24 Ore - Radiocor) - Being well to work better. The link between a workplace geared to the wellbeing of the individual, in a company system actively engaged in social and environmental sustainability actions, and better economic results is a factor that is now increasingly evident. And it is precisely this union that will be the focus of the meeting "Business and competitiveness: the well-being factor", scheduled for Friday 22 March at the Polo del '900 in Turin, as part of the fourth edition of the Work Week, a biennial event organised by Ismel Istituto per la Memoria e la Cultura del Lavoro, in collaboration with Torino Capitale della Cultura d'Impresa 2024 and with the support of Fondazione Crt. The meeting will be attended by representatives of Unione Industriali Torino, which promoted the successful candidature of the Piedmontese capital as Capital of Enterprise Culture 2024, those of the Politecnico di Milano, Fondazione Links, Cgil Torino and a number of large companies such as Nova Coop, Luxottica and Solvay.

Equity, well-being and development are the keywords of Labour Week, to question priorities, development models and corporate management. The aim is to understand how people are changing their attitudes towards work and principles that seemed to be established. "These issues," explains Cristina Tumiatti, vice-president of Piccola Industria Torino Unione Industriali Torino with responsibility for corporate culture and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, "must be addressed in all their forms, especially with young people. We have to consider that we are in a phase of great attention on the issue of changing jobs, and therefore there is a lot of dynamism in this sense'.

A dialogue, the one promoted by the initiative, between employees and the company, but also between generations: 'boomers have had and have a completely different approach to work than the younger generations,' Tumiatti continues, 'not least because there is an issue of the perception of job security. From my point of view, young people often put their individual needs before company safety'. What is needed is 'the right balance', 'an orientation towards the well-being of workers and the company seen as an organic whole of people and projects'. Knowing how to understand the needs of young workers, according to the vice-president, means making sure to aattract and above all retain talents, who very often after receiving a good education in Italy decide to leave our country. 'The issue of welfare,' explains Cristina Tumiatti, 'is a topic that has already been touched upon in the past, but now it is even more central, especially after the pandemic that has changed needs.

Unione Industriali Torino has always been committed to this front with many initiatives: training and support projects, the Esg tables and the Inclusion and diversity table, and support for professional careers. Not only that, 'we are setting up training courses for the top management of companies,' specifies the vice-president, 'we have initiated dialogues and feasibility studies for a territorial welfare project capable of responding to the needs of medium-sized or small companies, because large companies have already implemented many welfare projects, it is more the small ones that have yet to take this step. The challenges, therefore, are different and it is time to face them. "The magic recipe does not exist,' Tumiatti specifies, 'all the parties involved must work well together: companies, employees, but also institutions at a territorial level, because when we talk about welfare we also talk about what surrounds us, the territory must also be attractive.