Vita gazette – The proposal of the “mini week”, or rather working 4 days, comes to life. Work an extra hour every day to stay at home an extra day, with unchanged salaries. Intesa Sanpaolo has made a remodelling of the working week for the employees

The 4-day short week work, tested in Iceland and England with positive results, is also on the agenda in Italy. Intesa Sanpaolo has proposed to employees a remodelling of the working week: to work an extra hour every day to stay at home an extra day. All at unchanged salaries. Also because the week is “shortened” from 37 and a half hours to 36. But the free time available to bank employees is getting longer. It is a proposal that makes people discuss the mini week that Intesa Sanpaolo is planning for its employees who will be able to choose, in agreement with the company, when to take the extra day off.

Technically, the contract of the bankers already today provides for the short four-day week but the second level of bargaining started by the group with the trade unions Fabi, First Cisl, Fisac ​​Cgil, Ulica and Unison is needed. The new organization provides for a 9-hour working day over 4 days but for now, it has been proposed only for offices while the unions would like it to be extended to all workers.

After smart working, the short week is the new “revolution” coming to the world of work. In the United Kingdom as in Iceland, the first tests speak of success while in Portugal the parliament has just approved an amendment calling for incentives for the short week. There is a similar plan in Belgium too. The model of the 4-day working week could now also make its way into Italy in the most important Italian banking group.