Does the « short week » improve life? SACE experiment: 26% increased productivity
For employees, innovation within the company has grown, 47% decreased malaise from working stress and 51% consider it improved their ability to face work challenges effectively and flexibility
Short week, goodbye to the tag and smart working based on the activities to be carried out. There New organization of the work experienced by SACEthe Italian insurance group participated by the Ministry of Economy and Finance, he conquered 65% of employees. The workers tell of an evident improvement in the balance between private and work life.
The data
To line up the results of the new model, called Flex4fure and launched in 2024, the Smart Working Observatory of the School of Management of the Polytechnic of Milan. Monitoring in addition to the data on working well -being highlights how 58% of people recorded an improvement in the ability to manage objectives and activities. The interviewees speak of an increase in innovation, with 51% who increased the propensity to use the artificial generative intelligence solutions in work, accompanied by a Increase in productivity of 26%. For almost one person in two (47%), moreover, the malaise from work stress has decreased while The 51% believe that their ability to face work challenges effectively and flexibility has been improved.
The model
The idea behind the model is the mix between mutual trust and responsibility. «We strongly believe in the combination of wellness and productivity as an engine of sustainable growth. SACE Flex4fure is our manifest program and the research results show that we were right: to give people the power to decide when, where and with what intensity work develops entrepreneurship, it improves physical but also emotional well -being, and therefore increases productivity – explains the managing director of Sace, Alessandra Ricci. Who adds: «This is an important new step in the cultural and organizational transformation undertaken by SACE, which in 2024 allowed us to overcome all the Targets of the plan: with a Increase in productivity of 26% we made the highest gross profit ever, equal to 789 million euros, e mobilized 60 billion in support of the growth of Italian companies ».
