Nearly two-thirds of employed Italians use digital skills. This is what an ISTAT focus on professional skills in the labor market indicates. 37.1% of the employed perform activities that require the use of digital equipment for at least half of the working time (in the average of EU countries the percentage is 41.2%); 27.9% do so with low use; while 32.9% never use such equipment (27.5% in the European average). The lowest percentages of digital skill use are found among foreigners (7.8%) and less educated people (9.1%). Among the employed as a whole, the percentage of women who use digital instrumentation for at least half of their working time is significantly higher than that of men (42.1 and 33.4%, respectively). The heavy use of digital instrumentation - both for basic operations (such as sending emails, dealing with social channels and communication) and for more complex activities based on the use of software or management applications - particularly characterizes the activities of office workers, who in 80.9% of cases devote at least half of their working time to digital activities, especially if they are assigned to secretarial functions, money movement or customer service.
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