Japan's NTT to begin remote work as norm for 30k employees
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Japan's NTT to begin remote work as norm for 30k employees
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#2Ntt has 320k employees. I wonder what the other 290 will think?
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#3I’m sure that’ll help the already high levels of chronic loneliness in Japan…
Re: Japan's NTT to begin remote work as norm for 30k employees
#4Good. As an oil importing country, their fuel consumption will keep going lower
Re: Japan's NTT to begin remote work as norm for 30k employees
#5Ntt has 320k employees. I wonder what the other 290 will think?
In Southern Europe NTT is mostly a bodyshop. Their target demographic is junior engineers willing to do unpaid overtime for abysmal pay. Pretty sure remote work doesn't make a big difference.
Re: Japan's NTT to begin remote work as norm for 30k employees
#6I’m sure that’ll help the already high levels of chronic loneliness in Japan…
Clearly office work doesn’t help with this. Perhaps the flexibility and the removal of the need for things like capsule hotels will help. Maybe towns outside of the large megacities will see a renaissance ad people under 65 will be living there.
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Re: Japan's NTT to begin remote work as norm for 30k employees
#8Ntt has 320k employees. I wonder what the other 290 will think?
“ The telecom company has said it is considering allowing all 320,000 employees of the NTT group worldwide to work remotely.”
Re: Japan's NTT to begin remote work as norm for 30k employees
#9I’m sure that’ll help the already high levels of chronic loneliness in Japan…
That's seems a quite naive/brash take.
Isn't it the case that Japanese work culture, "stay until the boss leaves", is what contributed substantially to loneliness in Japan? A lack of work-life balance? It seems to me that remote work could lessen this effect greatly.
Also, you seem to be assuming it will just lead to people working from home alone. Japanese housing is notoriously small, and cafes ever-popular, it doesn't seem unreasonable to me to speculate that this could lead to a boom in working from cafes and co-working spaces. Unlike a majority of the rest of the world, too, Japan has far less urban sprawl - so going to such places is less of a hassle.
Seems to me this would do the opposite of what you suggest.
Re: Japan's NTT to begin remote work as norm for 30k employees
#10I’m sure that’ll help the already high levels of chronic loneliness in Japan…
I’ve never been there, but everything I hear about Japanese office culture sounds terrible: long hours, stodgy environment, forced participation in dangerous binge drinking.
That said, pretty much everything else about Japanese culture seems awesome.