Improvements in digital skills and job training attitude in Italy 2021, by WFH or WFO

The COVID-19 pandemic, which first hit Italy in late February 2020, had a massive impact on life in the country. The measures adopted by the Italian government to control the contagion pushed many businesses to stop or radically scale down their activities. About a third of Italian workers started working from home. Many had to learn how to use new digital tools and the overall climate of uncertainty pushed workers to focus more on their skills. According to a survey conducted in April 2021, about 41 percent of Italian workers declared that their digital skills had improved over the previous year, and another 32 percent reported a positive development in their attitude towards job training. When taking into account only people working from home, the percentage of respondents who enhanced their digital skills jumped to 45.5 percent.

自2020年2月下旬首次席卷意大利的COVID-19疫情，对该国生活产生了巨大的影响。意大利政府为控制疫情所采取的措施迫使许多企业暂停或大幅缩减其业务活动。大约三分之一的意大利劳动者开始居家办公。许多人不得不学习如何使用新的数字工具，而整体的不确定性氛围促使劳动者更加关注自身的技能提升。根据2021年4月进行的一项调查，大约41%的意大利劳动者表示，与前一年相比，他们的数字技能得到了提升，另有32%的劳动者报告称，他们对职业培训的态度发生了积极变化。仅考虑居家办公的劳动者，表示提升了数字技能的受访者比例上升至45.5%。