KUALA LUMPUR (July 7): Fujitsu Ltd has announced plans to slash office space in Japan by 50% over the next three years, Bloomberg reported yesterday.

This effort is meant to encourage its employees, numbering about 80,000, to work from home under the company’s "Work Life Shift for the new normal” ideals.

And to make such an ambitious plan work, Fujitsu will provide “a 5,000 yen (about RM198) a month stipend for workers to set up their home office environment in lieu of an existing commuting allowance”, said the same report.

Also in the works is to convert current offices to "hot-desking” facilities to “prevent the spread” of Covid-19.

"We will change the conventional concept of workers commuting to a fixed office and, through high autonomy and mutual trust between employees, deliver value to clients,” Fujitsu announced via a statement.

Fujitsu’s factory staff will, however, still have to turn up at their usual work stations.

The Bloomberg report also stated that another major Japanese corporation that has opted for more work from home time for employees is snack maker Calbee Inc.

It has started a system that allows for “800 office workers to work from home full-time, with no obligation to travel to the office”. Only 30% of Calbee’s staff will have go to the office

Reports have revealed that “traditionally-minded” Japanese companies prefer employees to get back to their offices, but it seems like they are experiencing “resistance among their staff”, with many of the latter preferring to “work remotely” even as the Covid-19 pandemic subsides in Japan.

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