It is a news story that has caused quite a stir in Japan. From October onwards, Yahoo Japan will let its employees choose their working hours and their place of work. In a country where human resources management is often synonymous with long hours in the office and a rigid collectivist spirit, the rise of remote working due to the Covid-19 health emergency is beginning to shift boundaries.
In a statement on the company’s new guidelines, Yahoo Japan announces that employees will be able to “work the hours they want, provided it is not too early in the morning or in the middle of the night, and they meet their monthly working hours quota” and will be allowed to work remotely “an unlimited number of days”.
Yahoo Japan had already made a name for itself in Japan by adopting remote work, or telework, in 2014, long before the Covid-19 epidemic. Staff could work remotely two days per mon
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