Il lavoro da casa in Italia: verso quale nuova normalità?
Croce, Giuseppe Scicchitano, Sergio
Croce, Giuseppe
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In Italy, as in many other countries, working from home (WFH) is now a common rather than an exceptional way of working and seems destined to remain a structural feature of labour markets. This paper presents an empirical analysis of the diffusion of WFH in Italy, also in comparison with other countries, and investigates the factors influencing the transition from potential to actual WFH. It shows that the persistence of WFH at levels significantly higher than the pre-pandemic status quo characterises the “new normal” of work and testifies to the existence of substantial benefits that can be derived from it, first and foremost for workers and firms. In the foreseeable future, WFH will only take hold where it is chosen by those involved, workers and enterprises, in order to realise these benefits. Since the benefits and costs are asymmetrically distributed between workers and enterprises, the adoption of WFH beyond the short term requires their shared distribution.
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2025
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Working from home, Remote working, Labour, Cities, Covid-19, Pandemic, Future of work, New normal
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Croce, Giuseppe, and Sergio Scicchitano. “Il lavoro da casa in Italia: verso quale nuova normalità?” In Temi di economia e politica economica. Scritti per Luciano Marcello Milone, edited by Nicola Acocella and Gian Cesare Romagnoli. 2025.