MILAN (Reuters) – Telecom Italia (TIM) will keep its offices across Italy closed on Fridays as a part of a cope with unions to expand home working, cut energy costs and improve work-life balance for hundreds of staff.
The previous phone monopoly, considered one of the country’s largest private employers, said it could increase the weekly days of home working that staff can take to 3 from two for around 75% of it current 42,000 domestic employees.
The scheme will start next February and initially run for a yr.The plan “will enable employees to raised plan their activities outside of labor…and to attain energy efficiency and cut carbon emissions”, TIM said, adding it expects its staff will reduce commuting by 60% in big cities like Rome and Milan. The agreement, a duplicate of which was seen by Reuters, doesn’t include staff working on the upkeep of the group’s network infrastructure. TIM will proceed paying its staff each day meal vouchers on home working days. The agreement doesn’t envisage any contribution for employees’ home energy bills.
(Reporting by Elvira Pollina; Editing by Keith Weir)
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