HRC, the alarm from personnel managers on talents and welfare

Between 2011 and 2024, 6% of young Italians between the ages of 18 and 34 left the country, and over half graduated. Almost 60% find work abroad precisely in professions in which Italian companies cannot find staff.

This is the framework of the OECD 2026 data presented by Marco Gallo, managing director of HRC Community, the network that brings together personnel directors of large Italian and international companies, at the Future@Work 2026 summit underway at INPS in Rome with over 100 HR directors.

According to the Cnel 2025 young expat report illustrated by Giulio Buciuni (Trinity College Dublin), the attractiveness is held back by the entry salaries: around 30 thousand euros gross for a new graduate in Italy compared to 45 thousand, on average, abroad.