60% still go to office despite state of emergency over virus: survey

About 60 percent of company employees in Tokyo and six other prefectures still commute to their offices despite the state of emergency declared for those areas to curb the coronavirus pandemic, a think tank survey showed Friday.The online survey by Persol Research and Consulting Co., covering some 25,000 workers nationwide, also showed the rate of regular employees working from home across Japan has roughly doubled to 27.9 percent in mid-April from 13.2 percent a month earlier.On April 10, 58.5 percent of regular workers in the seven prefectures under the state of emergency said they still …READ FULL ARTICLE