New ways of working are arriving without waiting. Two things you should know about remote work.

Year after year, remote work is gaining momentum.
What is remote work? It mainly refers to a form of work where you can work without going to the office.
Using a computer or smartphone, you can work regardless of time and without choosing a location.

Various social issues lie behind the increasing attention on remote work.
With many children on daycare waiting lists, for example, being able to work from home allows one to raise children while working.
Even if you move to increasingly depopulated rural areas, you can still work for the same company.
It can also be a starting point for solving many social problems.

That is why there is also a movement to promote remote work nationwide.
Above all, for child-rearing, it will be one of the major improvements.

However, there are some misunderstandings about remote work.
There are many discussions about whether remote work 'should be done' or 'should not be done,' or whether it is 'good' or 'bad'.

However, the essence of remote work is 'optimal placement'.

This is the first thing I want you to know.

Use it in situations where it should be used, and if it's better not to use it, then you don't have to.
Many people tend to think of remote work as 'completely' working from home or other locations.

When it's better to do it remotely, do it remotely. When it's better to do it in the office, do it in the office.
It's about using direct and online communication appropriately.

In short, it is one way to broaden the scope of your productive activities.

And this is the second point.

New ways of working are coming, and there's no stopping them.

Remote work has many positive effects.
You can work even in the countryside, and you'll have more time to interact with your children.
Instead of being exhausted by wasted commuting time, you can spend that time with your family.
There will be no need to go to the office with great difficulty on a heavy rainy day.

In fact, for companies, if they don't get used to it, they often won't be able to fully utilize the productivity of remote work.
It's understandable that it takes time to adapt to the system.

However, remote work has many benefits.
If utilized fully, it should lead in a good direction.

Travel time can be reduced. Unnecessary transportation costs are eliminated.
There's no need to prepare a large office space either.
Opportunities to have more contact with family will increase.
You can secure talent from anywhere in the world.

We often hear talk of 'lack of communication'.
However, most of the time, people are just not used to online communication.
Once you get used to it, the human warmth will be conveyed even online.

As times progress, it's inevitable that people will get used to online communication.
It's impossible not to imagine that services like Skype will be used more frequently.

I don't know how long the idea that 'meeting face-to-face is important' will continue, but its frequency will also decrease.
Meeting only for truly important points will also become common.

It's more rational and less wasteful to 'meet in person only when important' with people you used to meet every time.

There are still people who are not used to nomad work, remote work, telework, and so on.
I think there might be some people who dislike it for some reason.
However, new ways of working will spread rapidly and without delay.

In fact, Japanese society is also gradually becoming remote.
There are also several organizations in the world that have achieved complete remote work.

In such a situation, what would happen if we didn't pay attention to new ways of working?

You will likely be unable to keep up with the productivity of companies that have proactively adopted remote work.
The way of working directly affects a company's potential and productivity.

Furthermore, opportunities to hire foreigners and work with people on the other side of the world will increase.
It's even possible that the representative might suddenly no longer be Japanese.

In that case, the need to communicate frequently with overseas parties may arise.
It would be difficult to go in person every time. Sending people to the site is also difficult.
It will become a world where it's no longer possible to function without utilizing remote work.

Going forward, experiments will increasingly progress towards the introduction of new ways of working.
As a result, various environments will change, and methods of work will also undergo transformations.

One would want to continue to be adaptable in any era.

What you believe or don't believe depends on your own way of thinking, and what's important is the accumulation of the present.

However, I think it's also important to prepare for the near future.
The future will come eventually anyway, so I want to experiment as much as possible in advance and become a pioneer.