Hitachi, Ltd. has decided to reduce the office space in the Tokyo metropolitan area by 20% by the year after next, assuming that the employee attendance rate will be about 50% due to the establishment of telework.
In anticipation of the after-corona, there is a growing movement among companies to consolidate their offices.
Hitachi is reviewing its work system and welfare programs on the premise of coming to work, and with the establishment of telework, the attendance rate of employees working at headquarters and other locations is expected to be about 50% even after the infection of the new corona is over. I'm here.
Along with this, we have decided to consolidate about 40 offices in the Tokyo metropolitan area, including group companies, by the year after next, and reduce the floor space by 20%.
In order to respond to the expansion of telework, we are strengthening our IT infrastructure, such as increasing the number of people who can access the company's system at one time from home to more than 120,000 people, which is four times the number before Corona.
On the other hand, due to the spread of telework, lack of communication between employees has become an issue, so we are increasing the number of spaces for interaction and private booths for online meetings in the office.
In the wake of the corona wreck, Fujitsu plans to reduce the office area to half of what it used to be, and NTT East Japan moved out of a large office of 57,000 square meters in Tokyo in March. There is a growing movement to consolidate offices in anticipation.