Great Place To Work is the leading company in Italy in the study and analysis of the organizational climate of companies.
Through targeted surveys, they listen to the opinions of company collaborators regarding the work environment and prepare reports that become fundamental tools for management.
This sensitivity of the management, much more widespread abroad than in Italy, contributes to the training on the culture of work and Great Place To Work is a candidate as generator of the motions related to the organizational processes aimed at improving business quality and business.
Great Place To Work was founded in San Francisco in 1991 and today is present in 52 countries, has 600 consultants, 7000 organizations and 12 million employees to meet the demands of its analysis processes.
Trust is the main ingredient for creating the best working environment for everyone and certainly a healthy work environment contributes substantially to increasing the competitive advantage of a company.
This year for the first time there are two Italian companies in the ranking of Great Place To Work at European level.
I am Bending Spoons and Zeta Service.
Bending Spoons conceives, develops and distributes apps. It has more than 200 million downloads and 12 million active users per month. The average age of the 93 employees is 28 years.
«Our winning key lies in a portfolio of apps in different areas (fitness, photo editing, entertainment …), but with a large user base. This allows us to have economies of scale and flexibly allocate capital and people, “explain Danieli and Ferrari, two of the founders.
The other is Zeta Service, a company specialized in labor consultancy and human resources. Declares turnover of 19 million euros, 500 customers served and for them 240 people work. Among the benefits, «a business butler, available for chores that take time: mail, pharmacy, tire change, parcel collection. We offer medical examinations in the company and we provide flexible hours “, said Silvia Bolzoni in Millionaire.
“We can say that, finally, even in our country, companies have started to move in the right direction, focusing more and more on their own people and investing in favor of the well-being of employees”, says Andrea Montuschi, President of Great Place to Work Italy. “From our annual analyzes it has in fact emerged that the Italian Best Workplaces are focusing on the balance between time dedicated to family and work and on the level of innovation in the company”.
We still have a long way to go in the field of work culture in Italy, but we are convinced that Great Place To Work is disseminating a sensitivity that is necessary and we hope that more and more Italian companies can appear in these reports as excellence in the organizational climate.
