Good Practices by category

Walking and cycling roads for students and their families to go to school, and roll-out of a “pedibus”.

Bolzano City Council

150 volunteer civil servants in a one-year pilot programme for telework.

Lleida City Council

Taking aim at car congestion with time-based incentives.

Rennes City Council and Metropolitan Area

Rural mobility promoting sustainable shared mobility solutions.

Trikala City Council

Adapting working conditions to external events that impact the work environment.

Lille Metropolitan Area

Teleworking solutions away from home for a better reconciliation of time in daily life.

Rennes City Council and Metropolitan Area

During the pandemic, Milan City Hall began accelerating existing efforts to help city employees balance work and personal time. Thanks to recent provisions in Italian law, the Administration has been able to deploy a vast project (POLA – Piano Organizzativo del Lavoro Agile) of home or remote working (known locally as “smart” working) for its workforce.

Milan City Council

A wide-ranging remote working plan was implemented by Milan City Hall in 2021 through the Smart-working Organisation Plan (Piano Organizzativo Lavoro Agile, POLA). It met with considerable success and helped to decongest traffic and make working spaces less crowded. However, not all City Hall employees find the best working conditions at home, as they often lack the necessary space and circumstances to make the most of this opportunity. In September 2021 Milan City Hall arranged to make eight of its workplaces available to near workers not normally employed there.

Milan City Council

Adapting working conditions to external events that impact the work environment.

Lille Metropolitan Area

Including procurement clauses in municipal contracts to promote awarded suppliers’ adoption of work-life balance measures.

Barcelona City Council

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