Olympics / para postponement Hotel in Tokyo is severely affected.
The hotel industry in Tokyo has been hit hard by the postponement of the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, in addition to the new coronavirus. As a result, the employment of hotel room cleaners is facing a difficult phase.
A company that undertakes room cleaning for eight hotels in Tokyo has hired more than 400 part-time employees in anticipation of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games.
However, the hotel occupancy rate has fallen to about 20% due to the effects of the new coronavirus, and cleaning work has dropped sharply.
Therefore, we reduced the number of part-time employees to work per day to one-third, and changed the working hours per person from 6 hours to 4 hours.
Part-time workers have already reduced their working hours by a quarter, which is having a significant impact on their income.
The woman said, "Life is really tough, but other jobs are also hard, so just a little help will help me."
Under these circumstances, the postponement of the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, which the company had been expecting, was decided, and this has exacerbated the current difficulties.
If the number of guests stays unchanged for more than six months, it will be difficult to maintain employment of about half of the 400 employees.
A company representative said, “We have put a lot of effort into recruiting talent for the Tokyo Games. I'm worried. "