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View all search resultsA third of Japanese firms are reassessing using offices after a sharp drop in their utilisation in August from a year ago, as 65 percent of firms allowed or encouraged employees to work from home due to the coronavirus pandemic, a monthly Reuters poll showed.
As companies close offices in central Tokyo or encourage employees to work from home due to coronavirus pandemic worries, young people are relocating to the suburbs where rents are cheaper, space less at a premium and nature nearer the doorstep.
Besides poor ventilation in indoor settings, transmissions were also rampant in offices due to people’s unruly behavior of refusing to wear masks and maintain physical distance, according to the Health Ministry’s disease control and prevention director general, Achmad Yurianto.
The New York Times will shift part of its Hong Kong office to Seoul, in an ominous move as worries grow that the new national security law China imposed on the financial hub two weeks ago would curb media and other freedoms in the city.
Small offices often have insufficient airflow to dilute the virus, and, if an infectious person is present, could end up with high concentrations of viral particles over the course of an hour or so.
With more employees working from home to help slow the spread of the coronavirus, demand is surging for laptops and network peripherals as well as components along the supply chain such as chips, as companies rush to build virtual offices.
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