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Coronavirus: Fujitsu Announces Permanent Work-from-home Plan

Posted on the 06 July 2020 by Thiruvenkatam Chinnagounder @tipsclear

Coronavirus: Fujitsu announces permanent work-from-home plan

Coronavirus: Fujitsu announces permanent work-from-home plan

Technology company Fujitsu said it will halve its offices in Japan by adapting to the "new normal" of the coronavirus pandemic.

He says the "Work Life Shift" program will offer unprecedented flexibility to its 80,000 workers in the country.

Staff will be able to work at flexible hours and work from home will be standard wherever possible.

The announcement follows a similar move in May by the social media platform Twitter.

In a statement sent to the BBC, Fujitsu said it "will introduce a new way of working that promises a more empowering, productive and creative experience for employees that will promote innovation and offer new value to its customers and society."

According to the plan, employees "will start working mainly remotely to achieve a work style that allows them to flexibly use their time based on the content of their work, business roles and lifestyle."

The company also said the program will allow staff to choose where to work, whether from home, an important corporate hub or a satellite office.

Fujitsu believes that greater autonomy for its employees will help improve team performance and increase productivity.

  • Twitter allows staff to work from home "forever"
  • Facebook and Google extend work from home

In May, Twitter told staff that they can work from home "forever" if they wish, as the company looks to the future after the coronavirus pandemic.

The social media platform said: "The past few months have shown that we can make that work work. So if our employees have a role and situation that allows them to work from home and want to continue doing it forever, we will to happen."

At the time, Sree Sreenivasan, Loeb's visiting professor of Digital Innovation at Stony Brook University School of Journalism, said it was "news that defined the era".

"Some people may not take it seriously as it's Twitter, but we can learn a lot from Silicon Valley about job flexibility. There was a mentality that working from home stole from the boss and office work was more important." , he added .

Earlier that month Google and Facebook stated that their staff can work from home until the end of the year.

Google initially said it would keep its job from national politics until June 1st, but extended it for another seven months.

His announcement coincided with a similar move by the social media giant Facebook.


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