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		<title>Remote working: the effective solution to boost productivity and improve personal life (Amazon is totally wrong and simply lost its innovation capabilities)</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[The countless advantages of Remote Working The advantages of Work From Home (WFH), i.e. the Remote Working, are clear and demonstrated, both for companies and for workers, as well as for the environment and for social and technological progress. With Remote Working, companies reduce costs and increase productivity at the same time, being able to [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>The countless advantages of Remote Working</strong></h2>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The advantages of Work From Home (WFH), i.e. the Remote Working, are clear and demonstrated, both for companies and for workers, as well as for the environment and for social and technological progress.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">With Remote Working, companies reduce costs and increase productivity at the same time, being able to benefit from more motivated workers, less stressed by the problems of commuting and family organization, and more aware of their individual responsibilities. Furthermore, they thus introduce a corporate culture that defines work as the production of a result and no longer as clocking in and out, punctuated by endless chats in the coffee areas and corridor gossip.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">With Work From Home, workers reduce their travel expenses, given that going to the office is no longer necessary (absurd to have to travel kilometers and kilometers to switch on the same laptop that is switched on at home!) and are finally able to reconcile their personal and family life with work life, avoiding splitting oneself into different &#8220;parallel lives&#8221; (which do so much damage, not only to oneself and to the stability of the family but also in terms of failed education of the children). Furthermore, they avoid unnecessary waste of time in sterile chatting with colleagues (dramatically abundant in office work), benefit from greater focus and serenity in carrying out work, use time, even more than that used in office work, in profitable and result-oriented way: Woody Allen&#8217;s famous maxim according to which &#8220;80% of work is being there&#8221; is finally no longer valid.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">With the massive use of Remote Working, the environment as a whole obtains great benefits, due to the reduction in traffic flows of all types of means of transport, with consequent reduction in polluting emissions, reduction in the consumption of fuels of all kinds and in the usage of energy, with less need to disfigure the planet with drilling, highly harmful for ecosystems, aimed at extracting these fuels. WFH, therefore, should be considered as a best practice for increasing environmental sustainability, both in urban and extra-urban and remote areas.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The universal application of Remote Working, then, increases and enhances technological progress, due to the greater and constant push towards the digitalisation and dematerialisation of processes. At the same time, society as a whole is progressing, as are companies, thanks to the greater possibility of internationalization of working contexts. International work teams can be easily organized without requiring any physical movement: every company, thanks to Remote Working, has the potential to be international in terms of the composition of its workforce, to the advantage of the company&#8217;s competitiveness and also of cultural exchanges between different nations. A very clear example is the employment of researchers of various nationalities in various European companies and research institutes, without requiring any travel to these researchers, who can continue to carry out their work and receive their income even if located in perhaps disadvantaged contexts (for example in Ukraine in this dramatic phase).</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>The big mistake of Amazon</strong></h2>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">We could continue endlessly with the description of the advantages of Remote Working, advantages of which, fortunately, the companies are becoming increasingly aware, all around the world, so increasingly implementing it in their organizations. However, unfortunately Amazon does not realize this (or, probably, pretends not to realize it!).</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Amazon, in fact, in the last years really pushed for the digitalisation of processes and the modernization of the facilities and infrastructures, but it still does not massively use of Remote Working, which is the first and main method of digitalisation and modernisation. In the last days, Amazon decided to stop the two days a week Remote Working, at least in the United States (maybe in Europe it will remain). This is very surprising and clearly wrong, as it can be easiòy understood immediately from the “motivations” that Amazon management indicated: too many meetings, chaotic organization of work. These “motivations” are simply absurd and not related at all with WFM! Instead, these issues are related to poor ability of managers to manage, it is clear, and these issues are indeed even bigger with the work in presence than with WFM, as indicated already above in this article.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">At this point, the truth is that Amazon is suffering from the competition with Chinese emerging and aggressive companies (like for instance Temu and Alibaba) and is trying to use very old and worst practices to tackle this competition: reduction of workforce. With the last decision of denying the Remote Working, Amazon is simply creating a toxic environment (it seems that already the work environment in Amazon was not idyllic indeed, since years), so to induce people to resign and reduce the workforce without using massive firing campaigns. This approach not only will weaken the competences of the Amazon workforce, because the smartest people will migrate towards competitors, for instance Aplhabet and Meta, but also will not solve the competitiveness problem, because it can be effectively addressed by Amazon only through innovation and introduction of new paradigms and not with barbaric reduction of cost!</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Basically, the Amazon last move is simply a pretext: they are pretending that Remote Working is creating problems to them, whereas the problem is in the gigantic dimension of the company and ineffective management. They should maximize WFM, on the contrary, and reduce the totally useless costs for anachronistic huge offices, leading to a company facilities organization that is really flexible and smart.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">From a marketing point of view, Amazon pretends to take to heart the environmental problems that afflict the planet, but with its last move it continues to allow and encourage the senseless use of useless and harmful commuting trips towards working on site, useless and harmful movements that destroy the environment with their polluting emissions and continue to contribute negatively to global warming.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">They declare to use green vehicles for deliveries and pretends to want to emancipate world from fossil fuels and the related geopolitical problems, but imposing work in office and related commuting are forcing to waste these fuels for transport. It should be also noted that electric cars too use fossil fuels, albeit indirectly, because the large thermoelectric power plants, in which electricity is mostly produced, have such fuels as the primary source of chemical energy.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">All this would not happen with a massive use of Remote Working: it is no coincidence that, during the COVID 19 pandemic, in which Work From Home was the ordinary working method for all jobs eligible for remotization, all the air quality indices in the urban areas had improved in a shocking way: the environmental problem seemed to be solved in the blink of an eye! It is clear that we need to change the way we think about work and remotize it to solve most environmental problems.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The last absurd move from Amazon seems similar to the one of Twitter (now X), which resulted in a disaster, with the social loosing indeed competitiveness and capitalization. Musk bought Twitter in 2022 and immediately asked people to go back working in the office, so leading to a lot of people quitting the company. One year later, Twitter, then renamed as X, was losing 70% of its value, active users reduced dramatically and the company is now in bad water, worse than before! So, was the WFH a problem or indeed an opportunity that the company, after the acquisition from Musk, was no longer able to exploit?</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>The benefits that Remote Working can bring to educational and cultural progress and in combating the demographic crisis</strong></h2>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">We also want to focus on another aspect, another indisputable advantage of Work From Home that the Governments, well before the companies, should have at heart and which instead many times is guiltily ignored. The Governments are complaining about criminality, hooliganism, the educational and cultural deficiency of the young generations and at the same time are boasting of wanting to increase births, in an historical period were the Western world is on the path to extinction due to the birth rate decline. Nevertheless, they hinder, or at least do not appropriately incentivize, a fundamental safeguard in this sense such as Remote Working.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Nothing is more effective in supporting a healthy education of children, their correct and complete cultural growth and, above all, a desire to conceive children than Work From Home! In fact, it allows parents, or future parents, to be able to establish themselves as a family wherever they wish, perhaps in their places of origin, where they can benefit from the support of their families, without having to move from one region to another or having to support a daily commuting which prevents the presence at home and the supervision of children.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Remote Working allows you to get to know your children, educate them through very small but continuous interactions during the day, follow them in their cultural growth.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Working From Home allows couples to save money on travel, to better organize their life and time and to look to the future with greater serenity and less stress.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">It is all this that can encourage the birth rate, not the unlikely and ridiculous economic bribes that recall times gone by, in which countries were rural and medieval nations. Unfortunately, however, many governments remained at that time. A good sign is the one that the Labour Party is showing in UK, where they want to introduce the legal right to flexible (i.e. Remote of Hybrid) working for all people. Let’s hope this paradigm change will be implemented soon there and, then, will spread around the civilized world!</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[Israel and Hamas are NOT the same!
Hamas is not supporting Palestinian people but using them!
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Are you aware that many times Palestinians have been offered to become an independent nation-state and refused?]]></description>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Israel and Hamas are NOT the same!</strong></h2>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">In these very sad days of terror generated by Hamas terrorists, criminals and non-human attacks against innocent Israeli civilians, with crimes that are impossible to describe and, in many cases, were also impossible to imagine until one month ago, a further horrible thing is happening in the Western civilized world: some people are comparing the loss of civilian lives caused by Israeli retaliation with the loss of lives caused by the non-human huge terroristic attack by Hamas. They say that the innocent kids in the Palestinian building are being killed by Israeli bombs in the legitimate retaliation and they are the same as the kids and new-borns horribly killed and slaughtered in their cradles by non-human terrorists.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">NO, we stress NO, these are not the same thing, as well as Israel and Hamas are NOT the same!</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Why? There are many reasons and they are well known but we don’t want to say them once again.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">We want to limit our considerations to a simple rationale:</p>



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<li>When a Palestinian terrorist enters with unimaginable violence into an Israeli family’s home and kills the innocent Israeli family, he sees the baby into the cradle and he can DECIDE to NOT kill the baby, he can DECIDE. And what does he do? He, with determination and clear choice, DECIDES TO KILL AND SLAUGHTER THE BABY.</li>



<li>When an Israeli bomb is dropped by an aircraft or drone over a building where Hamas terrorists are supposed to be hidden, using Palestinian civilian people as human shields, the bomb cannot decide to not kill the babies, the bomb is only a bomb. Who can decide are always and once again the Hamas non-human terrorists: they can decide to NOT use Palestinian civilian people as human shields, but what they decide? The Hamas non-human terrorists decide to use civilians as shields and to condemn them to die.</li>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Therefore, NO, Israeli retaliation is NOT the same as Palestinian Hamas terrorists’ non-human attack.</p>



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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Hamas is not supporting Palestinian people but using them!</strong></h2>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Are you wondering if the correct way to support Palestinian people is to massacre Israeli gents? Of course, it is ridiculous such a position! Palestinian people are only used by Hamas as human shields and terrorists well know that by committing the horrible massacre of innocent Israeli people, including infants, they were also condemning the Palestinians to be part of the Israeli reaction against Hamas. Hamas is happy when Palestinians are killed as war victim, because in this way Hamas says that Israel is killing them but the logical truth is exactly the opposite: Hamas is killing Palestinian people, voluntarily using the as human shields to protect terrorists from legitimate and totally right and fair reaction by Israel to the horrible massacre Hamas committed. Hamas terrorists are assassins and kill innocent people on both sides, they kill innocent Israeli and at the same time kill, directly and indirectly, Palestinians.</p>



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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Arabian countries are not supporting Palestinian people but using them!</strong></h2>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Are you aware that no Palestinian has ever had citizenship by any Arabian country? Are you aware that also when Palestinians go to Arabian countries they remain forever in refugees’ camps, without any possibility to work or to become citizens? Indeed, Arabians do not love at all Palestinians and do not wat a Palestinian nation, because they, the Arabians, want that land and only use Palestinians “cause” to flight Israel to have that land and better access to Mediterranean sea.</p>



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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Are you aware that many times Palestinians have been offered to become an independent nation-state and refused?</strong></h2>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Palestinians have been offered to have their nation-state up to five times, since after war world II, and refused. Why? See the previous paragraph and you will understand…</p>



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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Brainflashes.com fully supports Israel, and all the civilized world should do so!</strong></h2>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Israel deserves the FULL support of all rational and civilized people, because Israel is fighting for justice and civilization.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Stay with Israel!</p>



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<h2 class="wp-block-heading">More info</h2>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">If you want go deeper in the topic, a very good book you can read is:</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">by Tim Marshall</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Here the link to Amazon.com:</p>



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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>La modalità semplificata di accesso allo Smart Working</strong></h2>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">E’ recentissima la notizia che il ministro per la Pubblica Amministrazione del governo Meloni, Paolo Zangrillo non è ancora sicuro se confermare, nel pubblico impiego, la modalità semplificata di accesso allo Smart Working per i genitori di minori di 14 anni ma potrebbe mantenerla solo per i lavoratori fragili.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Tale modalità di accesso semplificato è stata invece confermata nel privato, sia per i lavoratori fragili che per i genitori di minori di 14 anni. Questa è un’ottima notizia e speriamo vivamente che diventi permanente.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Facciamo chiarezza su ciò di cui parliamo. L’accesso allo Smart Working in Italia prevede in genere un accordo individuale tra azienda e lavoratore. Tuttavia, con la recente pandemia, lo Smart Working era stato normato nell’ordine:</p>



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<li>inizialmente, come modalità ordinaria di lavoro della pubblica amministrazione dal ministro Dadone, coerentemente con le esigenze di digitalizzazione e modernizzazione della pubblica istruzione, come dovrebbe essere ed auspichiamo diventi definitivamente in un futuro prossimo;</li>



<li>poi, come modalità di lavoro con accesso semplificato per tutti (cioè, bastava la comunicazione cumulativa del datore di lavoro all’INPS, senza accordi individuali);</li>



<li>successivamente, come modalità di lavoro con accesso semplificato sia per genitori di minori di 14 anni che per lavoratori fragili;</li>



<li>ora si accinge a diventare, secondo il ministro Zangrillo, una modalità di lavoro ad accesso semplificato per i soli lavoratori fragili nel pubblico impiego, mentre nel privato resta disponibile tale modalità di accesso semplificato sia per i fragili che per i genitori di minori di 14 anni (sperando che doventi per tutti quanto prima ed in modo permanente).</li>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Ferma restando ovviamente la facoltà delle singole amministrazioni di gestire lo Smart Working con gli accordi individuali, è però evidente un’inaccettabile involuzione del governo italiano negli anni recenti rispetto all’approccio del ministro Dadone, lungimirante ed al passo con i tempi. Occorre estendere e sfruttare al massimo le potenzialità dello Smart Working, come vedremo nel seguito di questo articolo, e perciò superare le resistenze di governanti retrogradi ed afflitti da una mentalità medievale ed improntata ad un atteggiamento di tipo sadico/paranoide verso i lavoratori: una sterile ed antistorica mania del controllo, perfino ridicola in un mondo che si permea ormai di innovazioni, come l’Intelligenza Artificiale, a supporto di processi lavorativi fluidi e completamente delocalizzati e remotizzati.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">E’ ovvio ed evidente che la soluzione più ragionevole ed improntata alla modernizzazione delle modalità di lavoro ed alla digitalizzazione delle medesime, come incentivata dai relativi programmi della Commissione Europea, è quella inizialmente proposta dal ministro Dadone: la modalità di svolgimento ordinario di tutti i lavori di concetto deve essere quella dello Smart Working, prevedendo solo in caso di necessità, ed in modo saltuario, la presenza presso una sede di lavoro fisica.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Questa massimizzazione del ricorso al lavoro agile, che nel privato prende sempre più piede, porterebbe ad innumerevoli vantaggi, come andremo a vedere nel seguito di questo articolo. Tuttavia, l’Italia è ancora arretrata da questo punto di vista ed è necessario fare questo passo avanti, con coraggio e determinazione, per responsabilizzare tutti i lavoratori verso il concetto di lavoro finalizzato al risultato e non più lavoro consistente in un intervallo temporale, senza dubbio molto meno produttivo molto meno efficace e molto meno efficiente, tra timbratura in ingresso ed in uscita del cartellino (un concetto assurdo che perdura nelle menti retrograde).</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Il crollo della produzione industriale italiana, certificato la scorsa settimana in barba al recente ritorno massiccio al lavoro in sede nelle aziende più retrograde e nelle pubbliche amministrazioni, certifica una volta di più che la produttività aumenta con lo smart working e diminuisce con la costrizione alla presenza in sede, sempre facendo ovviamente riferimento ai lavori remotizzabili (un giardiniere non può accedere allo smart working permanente, ma un amministrativo sì e produce di più da remoto che in sede).</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Gli innumerevoli vantaggi dello Smart Working</strong></h2>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I vantaggi dello Smart Working sono chiari e dimostrati, tanto per le aziende quanto per i lavoratori, nonché per l’ambiente e per il progresso sociale e tecnologico.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Con lo Smart Working le aziende riducono i costi ed aumentano al contempo la produttività, potendo beneficiare di lavoratori più motivati, meno stressati dai problemi di pendolarismo ed organizzazione familiare, più consci delle proprie responsabilità individuali. Inoltre, esse introducono così una cultura aziendale che definisce il lavoro come la produzione di un risultato e non più come la timbratura di un cartellino all’ingresso ed all’uscita, intervallata da chiacchierate infinite alle aree caffè e pettegolezzi di corridoio.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Con lo Smart Working i lavoratori riducono le proprie spese di viaggio, dato che recarsi in sede non è più necessario (assurdo dover fare chilometri e chilometri per accendere il medesimo computer portatile che si accende a casa!) e riescono a conciliare finalmente la propria vita personale e familiare con quella lavorativa, evitando la scissione di sé stessi in diverse “vite parallele” (che tanto danno fanno a sé stessi ed alla stabilità della famiglia ed all’educazione, mancata, dei figli). Inoltre, essi evitano inutili perdite di tempo in chiacchiere sterili con i colleghi (drammaticamente abbondanti nel lavoro in sede), beneficiano di una maggiore concentrazione e serenità nello svolgimento del lavoro, utilizzano il tempo, anche superiore a quello usato nel lavoro in sede, in modo proficuo ed orientato al risultato: viene finalmente meno la famosa massima di Woody Allen secondo cui “nel lavoro l’80% è esserci”.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Con l’uso massiccio dello Smart Working, l’ambiente nel suo complesso ottiene grandi benefici, per via della riduzione dei flussi di traffico di ogni tipo di mezzo di trasporto, con conseguente riduzione delle emissioni inquinanti, riduzione del consumo di combustibili di ogni genere e di energia, con minore necessità di deturpare perciò il pianeta con trivellazioni altamente deleterie per gli ecosistemi finalizzate ad estrarre tali combustibili. Lo Smart Working, quindi, è da considerarsi una best practice per l’incremento della sostenibilità ambientale, sia nelle aree urbane che in quelle extra-urbane e remote.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">L’applicazione universale dello Smart Working, poi, accresce e potenzia il progresso tecnologico, per via della maggiore e costante spinta verso la digitalizzazione e la dematerializzazione dei processi. Al contempo, la società nel suo complesso progredisce, così come le aziende, grazie alla maggiore possibilità di internazionalizzazione dei contesti lavorativi. Team internazionali di lavoro possono essere facilmente organizzati senza richiedere alcuno spostamento fisico: ogni azienda, con la remotizzazione del lavoro, ha la potenzialità di essere internazionale in termini di composizione della propria forza lavoro, a vantaggio della competitività dell’azienda ed anche degli scambi culturali tra nazioni diverse. Un esempio chiarissimo è l’impiego di ricercatori di varie nazionalità in diverse aziende ed istituti di ricerca europei, senza richiedere alcuno spostamento a tali ricercatori, che possono continuare a svolgere il loro lavoro e percepire il loro reddito anche se ubicati in contesti magari svantaggiati (ad esempio in Ucraina in questa fase così drammatica).</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>L’arretratezza culturale e gestionale della Pubblica Amministrazione e dell’Italia in generale</strong></h2>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Potremmo continuare all’infinito con la descrizione dei vantaggi dello Smart Working, vantaggi di cui per fortuna diventano sempre più consce le aziende private, anche in Italia, che in modo sempre più consistente lo implementano nelle loro organizzazioni. Tuttavia, purtroppo il governo italiano non se ne rende conto (o, forse, finge di non rendersene conto!).</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">L’Italia, infatti, chiede fondi all’Unione Europea per la digitalizzazione dei processi e la modernizzazione della Pubblica Amministrazione, ma ancora non usa in modo massiccio lo Smart Working, che è la prima e principale modalità di digitalizzazione e modernizzazione.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">L’Italia finge di prendere a cuore i problemi ambientali che affliggono la nazione ed il pianeta e finge di rammaricarsi per le inondazioni che recentemente ne hanno colpito vaste aree, ma continua a consentire ed incentivare il dissennato ricorso ad inutili e dannosi spostamenti per il pendolarismo verso il lavoro in sede, inutili e dannosi spostamenti che distruggono l’ambiente con le loro emissioni inquinanti e continuano a contribuire negativamente al riscaldamento globale.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">L’Italia finge di volersi emancipare dai combustibili fossili e dai relativi problemi geopolitici, ma obbliga la nazione ad uno spreco di tali combustibili per l’autotrazione e si noti bene che anche le automobili elettriche usano combustibili fossili, sebbene indirettamente, perché le grandi centrali termoelettriche, in cui l’elettricità viene prodotta, hanno tali combustibili come fonte primaria di energia chimica.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Tutto ciò non accadrebbe con un uso massiccio dello Smart Working: non a caso, durante la pandemia di COVID 19, in cui lo Smart Working era la modalità di lavoro ordinario per tutti i lavori remotizzabili, tutti gli indici di qualità dell’aria nei centri urbani erano migliorati in modo sconvolgente: il problema ambientale sembrava risolto in un batter d’occhio! Occorre cambiare il modo di pensare al lavoro e remotizzarlo, è evidente, per risolvere gran parte dei problemi ambientali.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>I benefici che lo Smart Working potrà apportare al progresso educativo e culturale e nel contrasto alla crisi demografica</strong></h2>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Voglio soffermarmi anche su un altro aspetto, un altro vantaggio indiscutibile dello Smart Working che il governo italiano, ben prima che le aziende private, dovrebbe avere a cuore e che invece colpevolmente ignora. Tale governo, mentre da un lato si lamenta della micro-criminalità, del teppismo, della carenza educativa e culturale delle giovani generazioni ed al contempo millanta di voler incrementare le nascite, in un’Italia sulla via dell’estinzione a causa della denatalità, dall’altro lato ostacola, o quanto meno non incentiva in modo appropriato, proprio un presidio fondamentale in tal senso come è lo Smart Working.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Nulla è più efficace nel sostenere una sana educazione dei figli, una loro corretta e completa crescita culturale ed anzitutto una volontà al concepimento della prole come lo Smart Working! Esso, infatti, consente ai genitori, o futuri tali, di potersi stabilire come famiglia dove meglio desiderano, magari nelle località di origine, dove possono beneficiare del supporto delle famiglie di appartenenza, senza doversi trasferire da una regione all’altra o dover sostenere un pendolarismo quotidiano che impedisce la presenza in casa e la supervisione dei figli.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Lavorare da casa consente di conoscere i propri figli, educarli tramite piccolissime ma continue interazioni durante la giornata, seguirli nella loro crescita culturale.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Lavorare da casa consente alle coppie di risparmiare denaro per gli spostamenti, di organizzare al meglio la propria vita ed il proprio tempo e di guardare al futuro con maggiore serenità e minore stress.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">E’ tutto questo che può incentivare la natalità, non le improbabili e ridicole mancette economiche che ricordano tempi andati, in cui l’Italia era una nazione rurale e medievale. Purtroppo, però, il governo italiano è rimasto a quel tempo.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Sebbene questo blog sia scritto in inglese, ho voluto scrivere questo post in italiano, dato che, purtroppo, anche da questo punto di vista l’Italia è medievale: pochi parlano e scrivono in inglese e l’internazionalizzazione del lavoro insita nello Smart Working aiuterebbe moltissimo anche in questo.</p>



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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I started the creation of this blog in December 2022, with the design of the structure and the identification of the expected contents.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I have very few time to work on the blog, but I have passion to do this as much as possible in my few spare time.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Now the structure and contents have been defined and the menu, implementing the expected structure, is integrated into the blog.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I also integrated the comments formats and the contact form.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Next step is to check the structure and menu implementation for debug, if needed, and then, or in parallel, not sure now, to start writing the contents, the most important part!</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Let’s keep in touch, coming back here I hope you will find interesting and relevant contents about life, finance and yourself. They seem three different topics, but indeed they are strongly connected each other, and we will explore this connection together over time.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">This is a blog about life, finance and ultimately &#8230; yourself!</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I am starting to prepare the blog structure and contents but I need some time :-).</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Please come here once again from time to time and you will find increasing contents that I hope will be interesting for you (as they will be for me).</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The first thing is: express yourself, see your world, manage your finances.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Everything is connected, I hope that my interpretation of all these things will help others and will allow me to better understand my &#8220;self&#8221; and the world around.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I do really hope so but, in any case, let’s try!</p>
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