Think tank · Strategic observatory
What is really happening inside the companies of Brianza.
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27 August 2026 · Recruitment difficulty
Two in three factory workers cannot be found
In 2025, 67.5% of the factory workers sought by companies in Monza e Brianza, northern Italy, were hard to recruit, up from 66.8% in 2024. Technicians stood at 62.1%. In July 2026 the Italian average was 42%: local difficulty runs one and a half times higher.
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The sources we read
Every piece in this observatory starts from these documents, always stating the period and a direct link.
- Sistema Informativo Excelsior — Unioncamere e Ministero del Lavoro Continuous survey of companies: forecast hires and recruitment difficulty by province, sector and occupation. Monthly bulletins.
- Centro Studi Assolombarda Analysis of labour and skills demand in Monza e Brianza, built by cross-referencing online job adverts with Excelsior data.
- Osservatorio Mercato del Lavoro — AFOL Monza Brianza e Provincia MB Annual territorial report: actual hires, terminations, contract stability and the local training offer.
- INPS — Osservatori statistici Employment relationships started, converted and ended, with provincial detail and downloadable open data.
- ISTAT Employment, pay and business demography: the national picture against which the local data is measured.
- Camera di Commercio Milano Monza Brianza Lodi Business demography and statistics for the metropolitan area. Part of the Italian National Statistical System.
Flash Forward is not affiliated with these institutions and does not represent their positions. We read and cite their public data, always stating source, period and date of access.
How we work
Every piece starts from one verifiable figure about this specific territory, with the source named, the period stated and a direct link. Figures are reopened at the source before every publication and re-checked every six months.
We read the official data of the Excelsior Information System (Unioncamere), the Assolombarda Research Centre, the Labour Market Observatory of AFOL Monza Brianza, ISTAT and the INPS statistical observatories, and bring them down to the scale of a single company in Brianza — the scale at which nobody reports them.
We always state what a figure does not cover. The limits of a survey are the reason the rest can be trusted.
Flash Forward is the observatory of Flash Communication, a strategic communication consultancy.
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