For decades, the goal par excellence, the safe refuge in the storm of the labor market, was considered. But today the fixed place in the public employment it seems to have lost its charm. Once symbol of stability and social recognition, it is now perceived as an unsatisfactory alternative, almost a folding.
To put this transformation into white is a recent survey by the CISL public function Lombardy, carried out by the Bibliolavoro Study Center. The most impressive data? 83% of public workers declare themselves unsatisfied. At the base of discontent, Stop salaries, absence of real career possibilities, lack of enhancement It is a working climate often perceived as a little stimulating.
Even the youngest are kept away: the lack of perspectives and the impression of entering one Alienating routine they discourage entry into the sector. The average age of public employees, in fact, is constantly increasing, with a generational change that is late to arrive.
Wages and cost of living: a skipped balance
The economic problem is the first critical knot. In the city like Milan, where the cost of living is high, a public salary is no longer enough. The daily average is of 125 euroswhile in the private sector you get to 133 euros With much higher peaks. In the face of increasingly demanding expenses, especially for those who have a family, the contractual security is no longer sufficient.
In addition to the economic side, the psychological factor weighs like a boulder. High stressburdensome loads and an often inefficient organization generate widespread malaise. In some sectors, such as health and services at the counters, they also record aggressions by userssignal of a discomfort involving the entire system.
If a few years ago Checco Zalone in Quo vado He praised in a permanent place as something “sacred”, today that phrase sounds almost ironic. The myth of the Travet, the employee model devoted to the desk, is slowly fading or at least has entered a deep crisis from which we do not know if it will be able to go out.
