Despite working from home, I went to work to push a stamp ...

Despite working from home, I went to work to push a stamp ... April 11, 3:47

A seal is the bottleneck for companies that work from home at a rapid pace. Some companies still have to come to work to get a seal on their contract.

In response to the spread of infection, the IT company "Asteria" in Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, outsourced the use of the representative telephone and digitized all internal payments, switching almost all of the 70 employees to work from home. Was.

In the past two months, we have asked our business partners to switch to an electronic contract, and we were able to persuade 80% of the companies. However, 20% of companies still require a seal in their contracts, so they have to work at home. Four employees regularly go to work, create documents and press the seal.

In fact, the president is forced to come to the office once a week in order to press the seal. On the 10th, the president and accounting staff contracted in a dimly lit office where there were no other employees and the lights were turned off. I was stamping the president on the book.

This company's electronic contract is a mechanism that leaves a record on the company's computer, encrypts the document stamped with the electronic seal and sends it to the other party, and within this month we finish persuading the customer and complete telecommuting I want to migrate.

President Yoichiro Hirano said, "I want to tell people that electronic contracts can be made easily, so that they can do telework throughout the company."

40% of electronic contracts in Japan

Electronic contracts for exchanging documents via the Internet instead of seals and handwritten signatures are becoming more widespread, but only 40% of companies in Japan have introduced some of them.

In transactions through the Internet, electronic contracts are used in which senders and receivers exchange documents in a cryptographic manner so that they can contract without worrying about meeting the other party without pressing a seal or signing a name. You.

According to the Japan Society for the Promotion of Information Economy and Society related to the operation of such electronic contracts, only 43.3% of Japanese companies have introduced electronic contracts as of January. .

According to the TDM Telework Executive Committee, which is made up of about 30 companies, including IT companies in the Tokyo metropolitan area, 90% of member companies that are promoting telework are forced to come to work to stamp their seals. That is.