Teleworking in Japan shrinks after COVID, hybrid working on rise

The ratio of teleworkers in Japan continued to fall as the COVID-19 pandemic wanes while more turn to "hybrid work" combining remote work and in-office work, a fiscal 2023 government survey showed.The online survey, conducted by the transport ministry in October and November, found that 5,832 of the 36,228 respondents, or 16.1 percent, worked from home or elsewhere outside the office in the last year, down 2.7 percentage points from the previous survey.Teleworking became popular during the pandemic under the government's drive to reduce the flow of people to slow the spread of infections, b…READ FULL ARTICLE