People Care is a specific organizational unit active in Italy within the Human Resources Department, aimed at supplying new instruments and services to improve the work-life balance of people at Enel and improve climate quality, also enhancing the working environment and system.
The Company’s approach to the subject of work-life balance is part of the Group’s will to create a culture in which people are less “employees” and more Enel citizens who are able to combine their personal growth prospects with the development of the Company. In this perspective, listening becomes an unavoidable methodological instrument.
The main areas of interest of the People Care Unit for people who work at Enel were identified through a special preliminary survey conducted nationwide that highlighted three overriding issues:
- Health and well-being
Enel is convinced that people’s health and well-being are the result of, among other things, actions knowingly performed for the benefit of others. The “Enel for Life” project consisted in bringing the medical facilities of transfusion centers inside the Company. This way, Enel also contributed to disseminate the culture of helping others and focusing on health, because every donor received the results of blood tests performed in accordance with the procedures for safe donating.
- Family care
Besides offering employees the possibility of purchasing the computer they use at work so they can be free to use it at home, another important project to increase people’s well-being is Libringiro (”Books Around”), Enel’s virtual library. This project is aimed at combining love for books and knowledge sharing, by encouraging socialization among colleagues. Accessible on the corporate intranet, but also from home, the system can be used to request and borrow books, as well as to insert comments, reviews, and suggestions.
- Getting to work and back
Coordinating the activities of the six Enel mobility managers in Italy – whose task is to identify and propose actions of sustainable mobility for employees traveling to work from home and back – agreements were entered into with local public transportation companies for employees. In another initiative in the area of home-work mobility, Enel started a corporate car-pooling service, which provides for particular benefits for employees who when driving to work and back home put their car at the disposal of colleagues and travel with at least three people in the car.
In cooperation with the transportation services of the municipalities of Milan, Rome, Bologna and Florence, car sharing and bike sharing are available for employees. These services are managed in the same way as public transportation passes, through a simple online request from the employee’s workplace and with the benefit of discounts and installments taken out of the monthly pay.
Last update: 19/07/2011
