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NEC, JTB tie up to put teleworkers into hotels vacant during pandemic

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The service offered by NEC Solution Innovators Ltd and JTB will be launched on Aug 31 in Tokyo and surrounding areas, with a plan to expand it to Nagoya and Osaka by around March next year and nationwide by March 2022.

With plans to start introducing this plan nationwide, which is based on the severe lack of tourists, not until March 2022, it seems JTB and these hotels have a pretty bleak outlook for tourism....

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with rates starting at 200 yen per 15 minutes for co-working spaces such as meeting and party rooms and from 3,000 yen for guest rooms with a minimum three-hour occupancy.

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So its OK to share a working space with other workers in a hotel, but not at someone's actual office? Whats the point of teleworking then?

And for a love-hotel priced private room, this means the will clean/sanitize the room after each use?

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Why bother? Let them work from home and avoid unnecessary travel.

But it may be more to do w. helping the hotel industry.

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Why bother? Let them work from home and avoid unnecessary travel.

Perhaps because a small apartment in not conducive for a good work environment for workers with families? If you live a large house in the suburbs - great, if you live in a 2LDK apartment you have issues of space, disruptions, noise etc.

I assume these are hotels are close to their homes.

Karaoke booths have been operating as pseudo office spaces for teleworking. This is another step up.

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I can easily foresee this coming in before a further announcement that the taxpayer/money printer is footing the bill.

If hotels need and deserve government assistance, they should be given it in a transparent way. Let's skip pretending it's clever or useful for them to do something else to justify getting the same assistance. Is 30 hotels' empty rooms' worth (say 1000 rooms) of teleworking going to make a difference in the fight against Covid-19? What percentage of Tokyo office workers will be able to do social distancing through this? 0.1%??

If people do not have enough space to work at home and the government is going to pay to help, there are all kinds of things that could be done without paying hotels. Paying them to rent a bigger apartment or extend their home, for example.

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