Abe: Flex hours, work style among key steps to fight virus

In a country known for long working hours blamed for “karoshi,” or death from overwork, the virus scare may help change Japan’s corporate culture and allow people to work more flexible hours.

Flexible working hours are mainly aimed at reducing the risk of becoming infected on packed trains, but companies are also encouraged to “create an environment where employees can ask for sick leave when they are feeling unwell,” Kajiyama said. He said the trade ministry began flexible hours on Tuesday and is promoting teleworking.GumGum Japan, an artificial intelligence company that already allowed flexible hours and remote working, now is telling all of its employees to work from home.

NEC, which plans to promote teleworking during this year’s Tokyo Olympics, also began allowing all of its 60,000 employees to work remotely to avoid the virus.Other companies were prompted by necessity. Dentsu Inc., the world’s largest advertising agency, said the thousands of people working at its headquarters in Tokyo will work remotely beginning Wednesday after an employee tested positive for the virus this week.

In Japan, two of about 1,000 former passengers have tested positive after getting off the ship, including a woman who had no symptoms but tested positive Tuesday after taking a commercial flight home to Tokushima in western Japan. Japanese officials said passengers who tested negative, had no symptoms and had no infected roommates are low risk, but after criticism asked them to self-quarantine at home for 14 days.

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