Increasing productivity of work by encouraging work-life balance: this is the objective of the Government, which has presented a draft law on smart working. In this paper, which will be released after approval of the Stability Law, one of the two sections deals exclusively with smart working, that is distance work, regardless of the geographical location of the office or company, with highly flexible working hours (within contractual limits) and with the help of IT tools. The Government is thus trying to regulate a working approach which many Italian businesses are taking into consideration.