Gli effetti del lavoro agile nel corso del lockdown del 2020 in Italia. Tra opportunità e alienazione

The spread of Covid-19 has been accompanied by containment measures that have forced a reorganisation of work. Since the national lockdown of spring 2020, agile work, more precisely home working, has become a widespread reality throughout the country, causing an overlap more than a reconciliation between life and work. The alienation from formal and informal networks due to physical distancing, in many cases has gone hand in hand with the rise of a new form of work alienation, particularly for women, because of the deregulation of agile work and the influence on behaviours of gender stereotypes. The Observatory on the Ongoing Social Changes Covid-19 of the CNR-Irpps MUSA research group carried out two national surveys starting from March 2020, analysing many behavioural trends triggered or amplified by the spread of coronavirus, including the influence of the workplace on individual well-being, tracing a correlation between agile work and negative primary emotions. Indeed, during these months primary emotions were strongly shaken not only by the pandemic event, but also by the workplace, especially when women working from home had to bear both the burden of family care and their work.