Lazio: 46 percent of employees work from home, hours increase but not wages

In Lazio, 46 percent of employees work from home, for many the workload has increased but not the salary. This is the photograph taken from the investigation into work promoted by the national CGIL and conducted by the Giuseppe Di Vittorio Foundation, in collaboration with the CGIL structures, presented this morning at the union’s headquarters in Rome. “The survey confirms many previous findings, namely that wages are at a standstill while the work of operators continues to increase”, stated the general secretary of the CGIL of Rome and Lazio, Cola Christmas. According to the survey, which was carried out by collecting around 30 thousand questionnaires throughout Italy and 1,296 in Lazio, in the region the share of those who work from home is significantly higher than the national average of 20.8 percent and affects almost half of the respondents , or 46.2 percent.

40.6 percent of the workers interviewed are satisfied with working from home, and there are 14.7 percent of people who do not carry out smart work but would like it to be introduced. 5.7 percent consider the choice “forced”, they are workers employed from home even if they don’t want to, while 39.1 percent are not interested in smart working, in the sense that they cannot or do not want to carry out agile work. “On the part of the workers – added Di Cola – there is a great demand to make what has gone well work, i.e. agile working, which in many cases has helped to reconcile life times and made work better. However, we note that there are steps backwards on this issue.”

At the same time, since the beginning of the pandemic, working time has increased for one worker in three, or 35.1 percent, even if this has not corresponded to an increase in wages, which have only increased by 14.3 percent. percent of the sample. For 1 in 5 workers, or 20.3 percent, income from work has actually decreased, compared to 22.3 percent at a national level. For 65.4 percent of those interviewed, however, income remained stable (67.2 percent in Italy). “The work, despite the growth phase, is poor and exploited, and there are pockets of illegality that concern rights and security that must be fought and eradicated from our territory, especially in a phase of large public investments and in the Jubilee phase in Rome. We expect that in this phase of development and growth there will also be space to restore dignity and protect people’s lives”, concluded Di Cola.

On the other hand, working time decreased for 8 percent of those interviewed in Lazio (10.4 percent in Italy), for 56.9 percent it remained stable (61.2 percent in Italy), and for 35.1 percent it increased, compared to 28.5 percent at a national level. Almost half of the interviewees in Lazio, or 47.5 percent, happened to carry out unpaid overtime hours and not compensated with rest, compared to 39.6 percent at a national level. In fact, the data shows that 52.6 percent of those interviewed have never worked unpaid overtime and compensated with rest, compared to 60.5 percent at a national level. For 11.3 percent, however, it happened rarely (10 percent in Italy), for 16.4 percent it happened sometimes (15.2 percent in Italy), while for 19.8 percent one hundred happens often (14.4 percent in Italy).

“This investigation, with a specific elaboration on Lazio but which starts from the national investigation, investigates working conditions in all their facets. What emerges is a great suffering on wages”, commented the president of the Di Vittorio Foundation, Francesco Sinopoli. “We expected it – he added – because Italy is the country that boasts this sad record of having the lowest wages than the OECD and European average. What also emerges is a strain on time and workload, a strong demand for job qualification and training and investment in the workplace and a perception of technological risk.”

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