A well-established hotel in Oita Beppu is closed throughout the building for 10 consecutive days Part of work style reform January 15 14:46

A long-established resort hotel in Beppu City, Oita Prefecture, which has the largest number of guest rooms in the prefecture, stopped operating the entire building from the 14th as a part of work style reform and entered a 10-day consecutive holiday.

This hotel is "Suginoi Hotel" with about 1,000 employees working. As part of the work style reform, employees stop working throughout the building for 10 consecutive days starting in mid-January, after the busy season of the year-end and New Year holidays.

On the 14th, after checking out all the guests who checked out, the lights in the hall were turned off shortly after noon, and the lobby, which was usually crowded with many guests, was empty and empty.

According to the hotel, sales are reduced by several hundred million yen for 10 consecutive days of rest, but employees are well-received for taking a leisurely rest, and the number of applicants for job offers has increased about 1.5 times compared to before.

Koichi Sasaki said, “We must take the initiative in improving the treatment while staying at the forefront of the accommodation industry, where there is a shortage of workers due to a shortage of human resources. Was.