How is COVID-19 forcing Japanese companies to revisit their ways of working?

The coronavirus COVID-19 has shaken up the way we work. We now know more about Zoom or MS Team applications than we did a few months ago and have all been invited to an “online apero” at this point.

As  managing  director  of  a  company  spe-cialized  in  multi-cultural  training  to  im-prove  business  efficiency  when  working  with  Japanese  companies,  I  have  been  reflecting on some of the impacts that we are already seeing and can anticipate see-ing  through  the  ways  we  work.  For  Japa-nese  companies,  which  are  on  the  whole  rather hierarchical and group oriented, the impacts may be long lasting and might dis-rupt their entire business culture.

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