The driver of this industrial doctoral thesis is Tetra Pak Italy’s Journey towards flexible work, from telework to the ‘Work Smart, Be Flexi Project’, through which the HR Country Services Function implemented agile work in Tetra Pak Italy in 2020. Agile work has been advertised both as a triple win solution, having positive effects on productivity, work-life balance and sustainability and as a cutting-edge Flexible Working Arrangement (FWA) based on trust, responsibility and accountability. However, plenty of doubts were raised by employees and managers following the project launch, which questioned the added value of this new way of working, even in a company which had always worked flexibly. Following the full transition to post pandemic smart working, it is time to address both challenges and opportunities connected to flexible working. Hence, the research, embracing the continuous improvement approach, focuses on smart working in a post Covid-19 emergency scenario, and its purpose is to address the criticalities connected to this new way of working with a view to outlining a smart working operational model which is legally compliant and can result in increased productivity and improved work-life balance. Mainly qualitative methods will be used in the investigation, and the research will be divided into three parts. The first part will describe Tetra Pak Italy journey towards agile work (from telework through emergency smart working to agile work) and the challenges connected to flexible working that the company had to face in the various phases of FWA implementation. The second part will contain an overview of the legal framework related to remote work, with specific reference to the main fields where blind spots emerged in Tetra Pak Italy, namely working time, work-life balance, OHS protection, control and disciplinary power; based on the analysis carried out in part one and two, the third and last part of the research will contain the outline of a smart working operational model meant to maximise productivity and to ensure a healthy work-life balance for employees. The outline of said Model, although born in relation with the specific nature of Flexible Working Arrangements deployed in Tetra Pak Italy over time, aimed at addressing a big question mark connected to smart working as a new way of working, namely how to make sure flexible working arrangements and smart working in particular can truly benefit employees, companies and society, maximising productivity and sustainability without negatively affecting employees’ health and work-life balance.
Questa tesi di dottorato industriale prende le mosse dal percorso di Tetra Pak Italy verso lo smart working, partendo dal telelavoro fino ad arrivare al progetto ‘Work Smart, Be Flexi’, attraverso cui la funzione HR Country Services ha implementato il lavoro agile in Italia nel 2020, presentandolo sia come una soluzione triple win, ovvero vincente in termini di produttività, work-life balance e sostenibilità, sia come un Flexible Working Arrangement (FWA) all'avanguardia basato su fiducia e responsabilità. Sono però emersi molti dubbi tra dipendenti e manager dopo il lancio del progetto, che hanno messo in discussione il valore aggiunto di questo nuovo modo di lavorare, anche in un'azienda che ha sempre incoraggiato il lavoro flessibile. Ora che l'azienda ha completato la transizione verso il lavoro agile propriamente detto, è giunto il momento di affrontare sfide ed opportunità connesse al modello misto. Il progetto di ricerca si concentra quindi sul lavoro agile post-emergenziale e il suo scopo è quello di affrontare le criticità connesse a questo nuovo modo di lavorare al fine di delineare un modello operativo che sia giuridicamente conforme e possa comportare un aumento della produttività ed un migliore equilibrio tra lavoro e vita privata, in un’ottica di miglioramento continuo. La ricerca, nella quale verranno utilizzati principalmente metodi qualitativi, sarà divisa in tre parti. La prima parte descriverà il percorso di Tetra Pak Italy verso il lavoro agile (dal telelavoro attraverso lo smart working emergenziale fino all'implementazione del lavoro agile ex Legge No. 81/2017) e le sfide legate al lavoro flessibile che l'azienda ha dovuto affrontare nelle varie fasi di implementazione delle forme di lavoro flessibile. La seconda parte conterrà una panoramica del quadro normativo relativo al lavoro flessibile, con specifico riferimento ai principali ambiti in cui sono emerse criticità in Tetra Pak Italy, ovvero orario di lavoro, conciliazione vita-lavoro, protezione della salute e sicurezza, potere di controllo e disciplinare; gli output dell’analisi contenuta nella prima e nella seconda parte della ricerca serviranno per elaborare nella terza parte un modello operativo di lavoro agile pensato per massimizzare la produttività e garantire un sano equilibrio tra lavoro e vita privata. Lo sviluppo di tale Modello, pur prendendo le mosse dalle modalità di lavoro flessibile implementate in Tetra Pak in Italia nel corso del tempo, prova a dare una risposta ad un grande punto interrogativo legato allo smart working come nuovo modo di lavorare, ovvero come fare in modo che le modalità di lavoro flessibile in generale e lo smart working in particolare possano realmente avvantaggiare dipendenti, aziende e la società stessa, massimizzando la produttività e la sostenibilità, senza impattare negativamente sulla salute dei dipendenti e sull'equilibrio tra lavoro e vita privata.
Lo Smart Working in Tetra Pak® Italy: costruire un modello operativo che migliori la produttività e la conciliazione vita lavoro
OMBELLI, Elisa
2025
Abstract
The driver of this industrial doctoral thesis is Tetra Pak Italy’s Journey towards flexible work, from telework to the ‘Work Smart, Be Flexi Project’, through which the HR Country Services Function implemented agile work in Tetra Pak Italy in 2020. Agile work has been advertised both as a triple win solution, having positive effects on productivity, work-life balance and sustainability and as a cutting-edge Flexible Working Arrangement (FWA) based on trust, responsibility and accountability. However, plenty of doubts were raised by employees and managers following the project launch, which questioned the added value of this new way of working, even in a company which had always worked flexibly. Following the full transition to post pandemic smart working, it is time to address both challenges and opportunities connected to flexible working. Hence, the research, embracing the continuous improvement approach, focuses on smart working in a post Covid-19 emergency scenario, and its purpose is to address the criticalities connected to this new way of working with a view to outlining a smart working operational model which is legally compliant and can result in increased productivity and improved work-life balance. Mainly qualitative methods will be used in the investigation, and the research will be divided into three parts. The first part will describe Tetra Pak Italy journey towards agile work (from telework through emergency smart working to agile work) and the challenges connected to flexible working that the company had to face in the various phases of FWA implementation. The second part will contain an overview of the legal framework related to remote work, with specific reference to the main fields where blind spots emerged in Tetra Pak Italy, namely working time, work-life balance, OHS protection, control and disciplinary power; based on the analysis carried out in part one and two, the third and last part of the research will contain the outline of a smart working operational model meant to maximise productivity and to ensure a healthy work-life balance for employees. The outline of said Model, although born in relation with the specific nature of Flexible Working Arrangements deployed in Tetra Pak Italy over time, aimed at addressing a big question mark connected to smart working as a new way of working, namely how to make sure flexible working arrangements and smart working in particular can truly benefit employees, companies and society, maximising productivity and sustainability without negatively affecting employees’ health and work-life balance.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14242/196043
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