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Japan's NTT to begin remote work as norm for 30k employees

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Re: Japan's NTT to begin remote work as norm for 30k employees

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post #43

Unnecessary commuting should always be included in working hours and expensed.

Are you going to expense your lunch breakfast dinner and rent as well? You need all those as well in order to work. If you work from home are you going to expense your electricity? Where is the line?

You have discovered another road to feudalism.

When people cast wishes I’d like them to imagine they are holding a monkey’s paw whilst doing so.

Re: Japan's NTT to begin remote work as norm for 30k employees

#52
post #43

Unnecessary commuting should always be included in working hours and expensed.

Are you going to expense your lunch breakfast dinner and rent as well? You need all those as well in order to work. If you work from home are you going to expense your electricity? Where is the line?

The talk should be opened either way. Companies are far too eager to put high RE prices / high commuting costs / long commutes onto people, but no one is asking "where is the line?" when the roles are reversed.

God forbid we play a few things by ear and see what happens.

Re: Japan's NTT to begin remote work as norm for 30k employees

#53
post #43

Unnecessary commuting should always be included in working hours and expensed.

Are you going to expense your lunch breakfast dinner and rent as well? You need all those as well in order to work. If you work from home are you going to expense your electricity? Where is the line?

You shouldn’t be able to expense things you would need if you weren’t working as well.

Re: Japan's NTT to begin remote work as norm for 30k employees

#54
post #14

Good. As an oil importing country, their fuel consumption will keep going lower

I really doubt many people in Japan commute by car.

> I really doubt many people in Japan commute by car.

Having lived in Japan and commuted by car in Japan, I can say that this is definitely not true.

In the inner parts of the larger cities, yes, very true. But in the periphery of larger cities and in every provincial city (which are most of them), there is a lot of car commuting.

For reference, I would say larger cities are Tokyo, Osaka, and Yokohama. Nagoya is probably around the threshold (not so sure, didn’t spend much time there).

Provincial cities like Fukuoka, Hiroshima, Sendai, and Sapporo are very much car-centric, although the public transportation system is quite robust. Most of the public transport in these cities is to and from the inner city and for short jaunts between neighborhoods by folks who don’t drive. For jobs outside of the center city, driving a car would be quite common.

The outskirts of Tokyo, etc. are similar to these provincial cities.

Smaller cities like Nagasaki or Shizuoka are even more car-centric.

Re: Japan's NTT to begin remote work as norm for 30k employees

#55
post #43

Unnecessary commuting should always be included in working hours and expensed.

Are you going to expense your lunch breakfast dinner and rent as well? You need all those as well in order to work. If you work from home are you going to expense your electricity? Where is the line?

> If you work from home are you going to expense your electricity?

Funnily enough, yes.

A very large group of countries have introduced 'teleworking' legislation post-covid, where employers are legally obliged to pay allowances to employees per day of remote work (specifically to offset electricity and internet expenses).

Re: Japan's NTT to begin remote work as norm for 30k employees

#56
post #43

Unnecessary commuting should always be included in working hours and expensed.

Are you going to expense your lunch breakfast dinner and rent as well? You need all those as well in order to work. If you work from home are you going to expense your electricity? Where is the line?

Actually in Spain you must get a plus by law to cover electricity expenses when working from home.

Re: Japan's NTT to begin remote work as norm for 30k employees

#57
post #14

Good. As an oil importing country, their fuel consumption will keep going lower

I really doubt many people in Japan commute by car.

My old roommate in Gifu commutes to her school job by car. Car use is very common in many of the not so big cities.

Re: Japan's NTT to begin remote work as norm for 30k employees

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post #43

Unnecessary commuting should always be included in working hours and expensed.

Are you going to expense your lunch breakfast dinner and rent as well? You need all those as well in order to work. If you work from home are you going to expense your electricity? Where is the line?

Japanese companies often include both a commuting allowance and a housing allowance as distinct components of your pay; neither is counted as income for the purposes of taxation. Meals at company cafeterias are typically not free (though some places are), but typically very reasonable -- e.g. 300 JPY for curry-rice etc.
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