An event that connects the expansion of telework to companies for people with disabilities November 13, 17:24
As the infection of the new coronavirus continues to spread, an event was held in Tokyo to connect with IT companies and others in an attempt to extend telework to people with disabilities.
This was opened in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo by a company that provides employment support for people with disabilities, and about 20 people with disabilities in their 20s and 30s and 5 companies including IT companies in Tokyo participated.
The event was held on the web and explained that company personnel are teleworking in the workplace to prevent infection with the new coronavirus and improve work efficiency.
As a result of a survey of people with disabilities in March by the sponsoring company, telework was the most common infection prevention measure required in the workplace.
On the other hand, in the case of clerical work, it is often necessary to go to work, so I would like to expand telework by having them acquire skills such as web production that can be done at home.
A 31-year-old man who participated said, "I want to telework, so I want to work in a workplace where it is possible."
Mr. Daisuke Fuji of "General Partners", a company that provides employment support for people with disabilities, said, "The working style of Corona is at a turning point for people with disabilities, and I want to acquire web skills and be able to choose telework. I was talking.
"Life-threatening anxiety"
Kotaro Takagi (29), who is looking for a job in telework, has a physical disability and continues to treat several designated intractable diseases such as one of the protozoan diseases, "systemic lupus erythematosus".
I usually take immunosuppressive drugs to control the symptoms of my illness, but according to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, these people are more likely to get sick due to infection with the new coronavirus.
Until the end of May, Mr. Takagi worked as a sommelier at a restaurant in Tokyo.
However, after seeing reports that a wrestler of the same age who died of being infected with the new coronavirus had an underlying illness, he began to think that the infection was not a problem.
Worked have shops is retired from the fact that did not stand even the prospect of the resumption closed in business self-restraint, if you Tsuko to the work of the IT relationship to work in telework, that was started going to the office to carry out the employment support of persons with disabilities is.
Mr. Takagi said, "Because the immunity is lowered by medicine, when I was working at a restaurant, I often felt anxiety about infection and life-threatening anxiety. What kind of disability does a company have? I was relieved to hear what kind of work I was doing and I knew that telework was progressing. I would like to improve my web designer skills and choose a job that has less contact with people. " I was talking.