Kim Myoungjung, a research fellow at the NLI Research Institute, commenting on the results of a Yomiuri Shimbun poll showing about 90% of major companies in Japan experience difficulties with teleworking. Reasons given include teleworking causes poor communication and makes it difficult to generate ideas; some teleworkers find it difficult to draw a line between work and private time and end up working long hours; while other workers developed mental and physical ailments due to stress.
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It is necessary for companies to thoroughly educate their employees [about teleworking] and take good care of them so they don’t feel anxious.
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Monty
It is necessary for companies to thoroughly educate their employees [about teleworking]
It is necessary to educate the management of the japanese companies, where the old managers brains stucked and stopped working in the 1930s.
thepersoniamnow
Companies educate employees?
Yikes at the thought
Aly Rustom
They should educate people on the merits of teleworking
Sven Asai
With that slow or older IT equipment, low bandwidth and interrupted communication or internet connections I wouldn’t even consider to do any business , financial trading or other teleworking job from home. You would need in fact a bunch of parallel analog services, like old phones, fax machines, post letters (for excuses to be late or unable to fulfill the contracts) , a taxi, an own delivery system for ideas or products etc. No, that all won’t work in principle and on a broader base, therefore teleworking is interesting for all sides and for a short time span but finally you want the presence of your employees in the company as an employer and you want your colleagues and working professional equipment in your company as an employee. A few exceptions might prove that common rule.
El Rata
Support anxious workers? What about your support and encouragement being that you get to keep your job? I hate teleworking and I have never suggested it to anyone at my business, but if someone refuses to do their job properly due to "being stressed" or "anxious" that someone will find themselves at the hello work queue the next day. How hard is it to do the job you're paid for without making a fuss?
sf2k
so reduce their hours then?
Tom San
Japanese people have a monopoly on feeling "anxious", don't they?