According to a report of the Cgia di Mestrethe reduction of the hours worked in 2025 compared to 2024 caused by the number of days of absence for bridges or holidays close to the weekend will cause one Reduction of the GDP of 12 billion eurosequal to the damage to the economy that should derive from Trump’s duties.
The report also reports a high number of hours worked every year per worker, which derives from very low employment rate of our country. To hold the rest of the rest of the world, Italians must work over 200 hours a year more than their French colleagues.
Spring bridges cost like Trump’s duties
The study of the Cgia of Mestre underlines that, compared to 2024, in Italy in 2025 we will work for two days less. It is the effect of the positioning of the spring holidays, April 25, May 1st and June 2ndall on weekdays and not far from weekend to religious holidays such as Easter.
This led several people to spend days of vacation to get a longer bridge and break the year with one short holiday in low season. The consequence of this behavior, according to the report, are however “factories, warehouses and semi-life offices”, with a sensitive effect on the economy.
In our country, every day on average 6 billion euros of gross domestic product are produced. Two days less than work therefore mean damage from 12 billion euros. A figure equal to that estimated for the consequences, on the Italian economy, of the duties that Donald Trump could impose at the European Union at the end of the 90 -day suspension period.
A week of work more is worth a point of GDP
The number and concentration of holiday nationalsecular and religious, has always been a problem in Italy. The first attempt to deal with it dates back to 1977, during the economic crisis caused by the increase in fuel and oil prices. The government then led by Giulio Andreotti canceled a series of religious holidays, in the name of Austerity.
St. Joseph, the ascension, the Corpus Domini, St. John and Paul, San Francesco, and the Epiphany, the latter then reintroduced, disappeared from calendars like holidays, earning a working week per year. According to the studies of the CGIA, such an intervention would be fruition today an increase in 1% GDP.
The hours worked in Italy
The reason why the holidays cost so much to the Italian economy is the structure of the labor market in our country. Italy is fifth by number of hours worked From each person employed a year in the OECD countries, after Greece, Poland, the Czech Republic and Estonia. It is the first of the great industrial powers and its data are not comparable to those of France and Germany.
An Italian worker spends every year 1,734 hours in the workplaceagainst the 1,500 of a French and the 1,343 of a German. It is the consequence of the low employment rate, the worst in Europe, which forces those who actually work to stay longer in the office or in the factory. However, this means that the absence of a single Italian worker weighs more on GDP than what happens abroad.
