New type pneumonia Returning employees from China also work from home on January 30 at 4:23

In response to the spread of the new coronavirus, companies have recently begun to work in China on business trips and return to their home countries instead of going to work in the office.

Of these, Rakuten assumes that if an employee or a family living with the employee stays in China on a travel or business trip from 16 to 28 this month and returns to Japan, the employee will be telecommuted from 29 to 14 days. I decided.

In the future, even if employees and their family members return home, they will stay at home for 14 days from the day they return.

Rakuten says that if a pregnant employee working in a domestic office wants to do so, he or she will be able to work from home if approved by his boss, and in principle will postpone accepting business trips to and from China. You.

Nomura Holdings, the largest securities firm, has also decided to seek telecommuting for 14 days after returning to Japan for group employees who have stayed in China for work since 15th of this month.

In each case, the infection was confirmed in Japan without a history of traveling to Wuhan, and it is expected that such measures will increase among companies to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus infection.