Salary increases but also company benefits and flexible working hours. These are the levers that medium-sized Italian companies, hungry for qualified personnel, are using to cope with the ''great resignation", the phenomenon of voluntary resignations which, according to estimates, in 2022 amounted to about 19.5 percent of total work stoppages (1.66 million out of 8.5 million work terminations in total), while in 2018 they had been much lower in percentage, at about 14 percent. The figure emerges from a survey by Unioncamere and the Tagliacarne Study Center. According to the study, "the mode most frequently adopted by medium-sized Italian firms to retain qualified staff in the company is wage increases (it is declared by 50 percent of the sample). This is followed, at a moderate distance, by the recognition of company benefits (29 percent) and flexible working hours (27 percent)". Less 'appealing', in order not to lose the best company resources, are the granting of smart working or that of privileged career paths. "Only a little more than 10 percent of medium-sized companies," Unioncamere and Centro Studi Tagliacarne continue, "bet on smart working or involvement in business decisions to retain human capital. Less than 10 percent offer access to accelerated career paths". "From the responses of companies," comments Andrea Prete, President of Unioncamere, "it is confirmed that workers, especially younger ones, demand not only a salary adequate to their skills, which is also a very important factor, but also the possibility to cultivate interests, hobbies and family affections".
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