For Japan’s 600,000 employees to work from home for the Olympics, what are the pros and cons of telecommuting?

As we all know, the Olympic Games is a global sports event. The Tokyo Olympics is bound to attract many domestic and foreign tourists, in order not to add pressure to Japan's traffic. The Japanese government has decided to promote working from home during the Olympics. Therefore, working remotely from home will inevitably have pros and cons. Let me briefly analyze it below.

The biggest advantage of working remotely is that the working environment will be more comfortable for employees. You know, the working environment in Japan is very tense, high-intensity and fast-paced, and competition among everyone is fierce. Therefore, working from home allows many employees to have a better working environment to deal with various company matters, and the psychological pressure will not be as great as in the workplace. At the same time, employees can better arrange their working time to achieve a balance between life and work. And for companies, employees working from home can also reduce some of the company's expenses, which can be said to be the best of both worlds.

The disadvantages of remote work are also obvious, that is, it is not convenient for the company itself to manage employees. Working from home completely depends on the employees' consciousness, whether they come to work on time and whether they actually clock in, these are things that leaders have no way to confirm. Moreover, an overly comfortable environment at home and an atmosphere without colleagues can also make some people inert and unable to work seriously and extend their homework time. In addition, remote working is bound to be a separate work place, so many projects that require collaboration or communication with colleagues will cause a lot of communication troubles. The most important point is that if there are children and the elderly at home, it is inevitable that you will be distracted from taking care of them, which will affect work efficiency.

Of course, the main purpose of working from home is to reduce the traffic pressure of the Olympics, so even if they are a little uncomfortable, Japanese office workers will still work hard to adapt. What's more, during the current epidemic, many companies are implementing working from home. I think through the training of this epidemic, Japanese employees of the Olympic Games a year later will have already become accustomed to remote working.