Web Platform and Corporate Welfare: An Inclusive Organizational Solution

Abstract

The latest economic trend necessitates a reconsideration of welfare as a place where public authorities and private companies collaborate to satisfy social needs, that are growing in quantities and varieties. Enterprises have a pivotal role in this new welfare system, the so-called “Second Welfare”, by adopting for their workers a win-win model that combines their corporate social responsibility with a welfare society. By corporate welfare, indeed, the Government can meet citizens’ needs more efficiently and effectively, people can increase their well-being and companies can improve performances and productivity. Firstly, those practices seemed a privilege for bigger companies but recently also workers of smaller companies have been included. At this aim, a case of a welfare platform created by an Italian non-profit organization is presented. ICT has a fundamental role to coordinate the supply of corporate welfare services and include SMEs, allowing them to catch opportunities that otherwise would be a prerogative of big ones.