Japan's famously diligent workers spend more hours at the office than employees in almost any other country. The government has a message: Stay home. Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to attend Olympic and Paralympic events in Tokyo during the 2020 Games, putting additional pressure on the city's already crowded transportation system. Officials also hope that promoting working from home during the Games will encourage a more easy-going approach in a country known for its cases of death from overwork.
On July 22, one year before the Games, Tokyo rolled out a month-long Telework Days campaign, with government offices and private businesses devoted to avoiding peak traffic hours. The government has been persuading employers to be more flexible (灵活的), hoping to help parents and others caring for elderly relatives to better balance their work and home responsibilities. Officials hope the campaign will show firms that employees can actually "work even more effectively" when they stay home.
Such as worries over the safety of sensitive information, the difficulty of controlling working conditions and the fact that business culture attaches importance to face-to-face communication.
Experts and government officials hope that Olympic efforts to develop telework might serve as something of a legacy for the Games. "Tokyo 2020 is a chance to actively introduce telework, which can create a stress-free lifestyle," said Azuma Taguchi, a professor of engineering at Chuo University. And he also advised strongly to take serious measures to deal with Olympic traffic.
"This is a chance to make telework a legacy of the Games that will take root" in Japanese society, Industry Minister Hiroshige Seko said in a recent forum to promote flexible work And some officials are hoping that a more open-minded approach to work could encourage people to take. "workations"—working remotely from distant locations.
A. Workstations have already appeared in Japan.
B. The concept isn't completely unfamiliar in Japan.
C. The efforts have also been met with various barriers.
D. Tokyo tells workers to stay home to enjoy a new lifestyle.
E. The aim is to avoid traffic jam during the coming Olympics.
F. He warned of potentially "disastrous traffic jam", if action is not taken.
G. Others also see the Games as a chance to break existing work habits.
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