Japanese firm Fujitsu wants to make telework the norm

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Getting rid of half of its offices thanks to the massive use of telework is the project of the Japanese firm Fujitsu. It plans to make homework the norm for its 80,000 employees on the archipelago. This major change in corporate culture stems from new professional and health constraints linked to the Covid-19.

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Only a quarter of Japanese employees of Fujitsu can now go to the office. No wonder during a pandemic, but it could become the norm in the long term. In any case, this is the will displayed by the management of the firm specializing in information and communication technologies, with the key word "flexibility": both the hours of the employees, but also their place of work .

By 2023, individual offices should completely disappear, thanks to teleworking or premises accessible from time to time to carry out specific tasks such as meetings with customers. According to management, this new way of organizing the activity should make it possible to "stimulate innovation" by making employees "more responsible, productive and creative".

This decision is reminiscent of that made by Twitter management last May. By drawing the same lessons from the health crisis as Fujitsu, the social network offered employees who wanted to stay at home forever.

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