The pandemic has triggered a shift in how businesses operate, priming the culture for a freelance boom and with it, creating new living and working opportunities. Is now the time to set up as a freelancer in Italy?
Italy had long benefitted from a regular flow of English native speakers from the UK, but language schools are now struggling to recruit British teachers due to the effects of Brexit and Covid travel restrictions.
The Italian villages hoping to entice remote workers with financial incentives are set to receive a boost as international business has its sights set on Italy for startups and sustainable development. Will there soon be more opportunity to work in Italy with just a laptop and an internet connection?
Remote working was widely embraced in Italy for the first time amid the pandemic. But along with the positives have come longer working hours and an inability to switch off from the job, a new study shows.
If you hope to find work in Italy but haven't (yet) mastered the language, we spoke to people who've already done just that to find out what the options are - and how difficult it really is.
Italy is not known for low taxes, but freelancers may be able to take advantage of a flat tax scheme that cuts the rate to as little as five percent. Here's how it works.
Some small Italian towns are hoping to breathe new life into their neighbourhoods by luring remote workers with financial incentives. But is it really as simple as that? We look into the Italian relocation schemes on offer in Italy.
"There's a huge passion to make music in Italy, which makes it a great place to work and spend time," says conductor Alpesh Chauhan. At the age of just 28, Chauhan is the principal conductor of the main orchestra in Parma, the northern city chosen as Italy's Capital of Culture for 2020.
Italy's gender pay gap is increasing, with women on average earning 7.3 percent less than men and rarely making it into managerial positions, figures released on Thursday show.
The €99,000 salary offered to long-serving barbers at Italian parliament is “excessive”, a Rome barber who boasts the president as a client told The Local on Thursday.
Jailed Italian politicians will continue to receive their salary after a request by the Five Star Movement (M5S) to have a former Democratic Party MP’s salary frozen was rejected.
Italians are spending the bulk of their monthly salary on rent as prices climb and landlords refuse to negotiate even in times of job loss, a survey has revealed.
Hourly salaries in Italy rose just 1.4 percent on average in 2013 – the lowest rate since 1982 – the national statistics agency, Istat, said on Tuesday.
Italian MPs are raking in the cash compared to their European counterparts. Taking home €10,400 a month, they also earn thousands more than the average Italian. But are they worth it? The Local asks Luca Verzichelli, a politics professor at the University of Siena.
Italian MPs are paid €11,703 a month and receive €4,003 in overnight expenses, far higher than many of their European counterparts, research has found.
