I am seriously considering deleting myself from LinkedIn or, at the very least, taking a longer break than usual. After all, I use these socials mainly to share some new projects, but I am certainly not a frequent visitor. <\/p>\n\n
You will probably say to yourselves, \u201cOkay, bye! To the people?\u201d and, indeed, how can I blame you? It’s not like I’m the Ferragni! ????<\/p>\n\n
However, I still want to entertain you for a few minutes with some thoughts that perhaps some of you will share.<\/p>\n\n
I have the feeling that I am witnessing a kind of \u201cpolitics spilled over\u201d into the work environment. I give an example: I follow some people with lofty and ridiculous titles on the tone of \u201cNeuroHR Evangelist of Agile Emotional Empowerment and Quantum Team Alignment politically (in)correct.<\/strong><\/em>\u201d since I joined. They will undoubtedly be good people, however I find their posts to be extremely \u201cpopulist\u201d (a term that, unfortunately, is used and abused by everyone but is fitting here), and downright trite. This is a truly \u201cpolitically incorrect\u201d statement. Once you reach a certain threshold of followers, it seems to me that you end up posting any platitude, to cite a few examples, \u201cA world without war is a better world\u201d or \u201cA nice picnic in the countryside is better done on a sunny day than under hail.\u201d All embellished with a catchy image and a vectorized signature like the one I put in the featured image of this article (to satirize of course). <\/p>\n\n Not to mention the so-called marketing \u201cGurus\u201d who have discovered the hot-water secret to becoming millionaires but, STRONGLY, instead of enjoying their fortune on an indefinite vacation to the Fiji Islands, they seem to spend their lives in front of their computers \u201cnagging\u201d anyone who has written in their profile \u201cCEO\u201d or \u201cFounder\u201d to turn their company into SpaceX in no time and with two liras; how selfless!<\/p>\n\n It feels like a fish market.<\/p>\n\n I wonder if these people from the \u201clapidary\u201d posts have ever visited the corporate realities that generate 80 percent of the national GDP or if their world stops at companies like Google, Meta and other multinationals with billion-dollar turnovers that can easily stuff their mouths with Welfare, bonuses, stress-free work environments, health insurance that covers the dentist for them and family, etc. etc. <\/p>\n\n No gentlemen, it is too easy to talk about work values when you are reasoning about companies with turnovers of billions of euros…. I am talking about small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)<\/strong>, which account for 99%<\/strong> of businesses in Italy (so this is the norm, it is not Google, it is not Amazon, it is not SpaceX), employ about 78% of the private workforce and contribute 65% of the total value added. If we also consider microenterprises, it comes close to 80% of GDP, as I mentioned earlier. When I read phrases from these characters such as \u201cWith the good ones we work better,\u201d I am puzzled: is there really anyone who has totally lost their senses that they can disagree with statements of this tenor? I would say no, which is why I consider such content to be lapalissian and populist. But, having ended this parenthesis of thought worthy of Gianni Rodari’s best fairy tales, let us return to reality…. <\/p>\n\n The majority<\/strong> of Italian businesses are SMEs, the very ones that pay their taxes all, all the time and to the last penny (at least the majority), and those that do not pay them, do so because they cannot pay them not because of fraudulent attitudes! \u201cEither I pay the state to throw them out with electoral marquees or I pay my employees,\u201d<\/em> and this is how entrepreneurs who have fallen on dark times, risk having their movable and immovable property seized…. In order not to let his employees go without bread and avoid firing them. <\/p>\n\n Closing this parenthesis. Precariousness reigns in Italy, which is not imposed by employers, but by the state. It could not be otherwise: a company, in order to give 1,600 euros of salary to an employee, must spend almost 3,000 euros. <\/p>\n\n In all of this, the majority of entrepreneurs have to struggle with unbounded bureaucracy, with complex and slow procedures that hold back both hiring and investment, forcing the same companies to devote a lot of effort to administrative management.<\/p>\n\n Employees who, with what little the company can give, under the pressures of the IRS, cannot make ends meet, and live their lives (not only work) with loads of stress and uncertainty in the future.<\/p>\n\n Difficulties in accessing credit, both for employees and companies. Especially for SMEs, getting adequate financing to develop growth or R&D projects is a drama, because they have no access to any kind of credit. <\/p>\n\n On the fiscal side, in addition to the very high tax burden (among the highest in Europe), the lack of medium- and long-term certainty makes it difficult to plan and schedule investments.<\/p>\n\n At the contractual level, the Italian labor market is characterized by constraints that, while protecting workers, can discourage business growth, especially in a context of economic uncertainty such as the one Italy has been experiencing since the late 1990s after joining the eurozone.<\/p>\n\n Many SMEs struggle to keep up with digital transformation, thus losing competitiveness in increasingly globalized markets. This is due to the fact that although there are funds for digitization 4.0, accessing them requires labyrinthine bureaucratic procedures and biblical time frames. <\/p>\n\n Geographically, then, there is a clear north-south divide concerning infrastructure and services, resulting in a decrease in development opportunities that hinder an equitable distribution of jobs and investment.<\/p>\n\n Responding to: \u201cwith the good ones you work better.\u201d The good ones rightly want to be paid properly. Otherwise the door to France and Germany, if not America and Canada are wide open. We produce talent in universities for other nations to produce. I too would like a talent to work with me, but with my turnover and the inordinate amount of taxes I pay I could not have given him more than 1,500 euros a month and not 4,000 net a month as he deserves. Obviously, I have avoided making a fool of myself! <\/p>\n\n In conclusion, before sharing pre-packaged reflections and catch phrases on social media, it would perhaps be better to immerse ourselves more in the Italian business reality, made up of so many small businesses and true heroes who, despite a thousand difficulties, support this state unworthy of their sacrifice and the sacrifice of millions of workers who have to work to earn wages that are among the lowest in Europe.<\/p>\n\n Personally, I believe that debate on LinkedIn can be stimulating, as long as real problems are addressed and, perhaps, concrete solutions are proposed and not basing arguments on catch phrases such as \u201cPeace is better than war\u201d… No f@@@ing shit! Do you understand what a breakthrough! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I am seriously considering deleting myself from LinkedIn or, at the very least, taking a longer break than usual. 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Italy remains standing and can sit at the G7 table thanks to this entrepreneurial fabric, the so-called \u201chard core.\u201d<\/p>\n\n