Schools in the company, to start over. What we are experiencing in many ways can be called a period of adjustment post-virus. For families in which both parents work, it is not easy to take care of the children, especially at a time like this when they schools remain closed and where it is more complicated and risky to rely on grandparents.
It will not be easy to set up the summer camps, not to mention the pools, where apparently only a few children can enter at a time.
Schools in the company
Various companies and businesses are therefore gearing up for set up decicated areas that can accommodate the little ones. One of these is the Euronewpack of Thiene, in the Vicenza area, which operates in the packaging sector. Converting an office to a computer room for kids to follow school video lessons has proved to be an efficient and very useful expedient for its employees.
Parents can keep an eye on their children and work with less anxiety. Otherwise, many of the collaborators would have had to ask for holidays, expectations. And many mothers would be asked to choose between family and work. The Euronewpack initiative includes a welfare project in support of working mothers: also offering a free private babysitting service. All employees' children will benefit.
Schools in the company and welfare for working mothers
The Euronewpack initiative was followed by the Tekapp company in Formigine, in the province of Modena. Parents were able to take their children with them to work where a sort of strange but functional parallel school was gradually created. Children study but can also play. In addition, in a large dedicated room they can all practice English together - a few meters from mom and dad busy at work.
It began gradually and at the beginning it was the employees who supervised the children, then - explained Amedeo Faino, an employee of the company - a professional educator was involved. In short, the art of getting by of the Italians, combined with the ability to network.
Jane Mary Amadio
Jane Mary Amadio, head of Benetton group's online retail, in the Treviso area, wanted to do more. She asked for leave to be able to personally follow the children of working mothers for free, even online where necessary. He felt that at a time like this it was a moral duty to be useful.
Jane is 55 years old and has no children of her own, and after all, his job is to find functional solutions. Having entrepreneurial skills means knowing how to apply them at 360 degrees. The children still do not know how they will return to school. These days are a little suspended. The uncertainty will still last. So we need to think and we need to do it together, to invent for the community: a social laboratory in the making, in short, for the common good.
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