Smart working and meal vouchers: after Sala, Castelli

It was fuss over Giuseppe Sala, it was fuss over Deputy Minister Laura Castelli. But in both cases the debate has slipped on the unspoken, the quagmires of politics and the inclined plane of the crisis. The case is now known and compared to journalistic drifts it is better to postpone since the message of the vice-minister to restaurateurs has not been "change job", but that of helping those who, faced with the economic tightening, will use creativity to reinvent themselves and reposition themselves on the market.

The side effects of smart working

But be careful, because between controversies and opinions you lose a point that is the same that underwent between the lines of the speech of Mayor Sala: the solutions found to resolve the pandemic have important side effects that cannot be underestimated. Where digital transformation is a solution (and smart working is an instrument of it), digital transformation is at the same time a serious problem. This is because innovation did not flow according to nature, but was imposed by means of contagions.

Room and Castles have spoken to the same sector: catering . We must therefore begin to give a measure of this, to understand what you're talking about when you try to guess the repercussions of the smart working witnessing the sudden disappearance of the “lunch break”. A given is the one rattled off two years ago, on the occasion of a round table organized by Anseb (National Association Society of Ticket Vouchers): the volume of business was estimated at just over 3 billion euros. Considering the fact that 30% of the vouchers was spent at large retailers and the remainder at restaurants, here at least 2 billion euros go up in smoke along with the 150 thousand jobs related to this type of activity . Worse still, there is a relapse to heavy level induced between the suppliers on the rental, which is why the Hall has brought forward an appeal so earnest against smart working without being able to say that in reality he wanted to scream.

“The market of a good meal is healthy and still has huge growth potential . In the last year the market has led to a 19% the proportion of workers covered by the #buonopasto #LucaPalermo , ceo of @Edenred_Italia pic.twitter.com/kPNBASyeOz

— ANSEB (@ANSEB_Italia) July 10, 2018



let me Be clear: there is an immediate solution. But to be able to identify a solution, it is necessary to start with identifying the problem, excluding the politics and interests of the part from the reason for the dispute. If Gambero Rosso defends the vice-minister of the Economy, there's a reason: his statements, as distorted by the subsequent reports, picked in the sign:

This crisis has moved the demand and supply. The people have changed the way of life and must be taken into account. [...] You need to help businesses and creative entrepreneurs to move the ui to the new businesses that are born in this period. [...] Are the processes of long-term, of course, but if a person decides not to go and sit in the restaurant you have to help the entrepreneur to do, maybe another, and not to lose the employment and should be supported in your creativity: you may have seen a new business by address

the appeal of The Gambero Rosso is so much more intelligent, and proactive there may be for the fund:

Dear restaurateurs (but applies to all entrepreneurs), stay alert with respect to the change in the act and be ready to ride it is a valuable suggestion to be seized, not a threat from someone.

Massimiliano Tonelli

The risk is that smart working can be stigmatized as the enemy , as a drift to eliminate in the defense of an inertia which would, however, fallacious. Italy can't afford an approach so shallow to the problem, that must be studied fully to ensure that the catering, the mobility and all the other departments involved in the project to find the right key of interpretation to reinvent itself, and reinvent.

once Again, you should not be afraid of change , because in and of itself is an entity neutral to not look anyone in the face, and that, if embraced, can return great satisfaction. But we must have the courage to change and manage this change. Above all, we must not think that the change is the solution in itself: smart working is a panacea crucial, and will be part of the new mix of work of the companies post-Covid. No one feels, however, excluded, because while the Room and Castles recommend caution, too many headlines have screamed at the finger instead of looking at the Moon. And this is the first problem when the Country has no need to look at the horizon if it wants to see a vision that leads out of this situation.