Japanese company obliges remote workers to pay colleagues in the office

The Japanese company Disco Corp has demanded that employees working from home pay those colleagues who continue to travel to work in the office, The Japan Times reported. Disco Corp is a supplier of semiconductor manufacturing equipment.

“It is unfair to require some people to come when others stay at home. The corporate currency offers incentives and the choice is yours,” CEO Kazuma Sekiya told BLOOMBERG. Some employees did not agree with this practice, considering it too harsh, and left Disco, said the CEO.

A new strain of CORONAVIRUS "delta plus" entered RUSSIA He added that to date, almost 90% of employees have preferred to be present in person, which has led to a significant reduction in the amount of payments.

In 2011, Disco Corp formed its own micro-economy in the company by creating the internal currency Will. Using it, the sales department pays factory workers to produce goods, who in turn pay engineers to develop products. There are fixed prices for office desks, computers and meeting rooms. When a company concludes a transaction, the local currency is transferred along the chain, and the remaining amount at the end of each quarter is converted into real money, which is paid as a premium.

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The company has organized work from home since the beginning of the pandemic, but some employees were still forced to travel to production so that the factories would not stop producing products. Based on these circumstances, the company introduced a rule according to which remote employees pay a certain amount in the internal currency Will. This money is then distributed among those who continue to travel to work.

Kazuma Sekiya inherited the management of the company, founded in 1937 by his great-grandfather.

Employers assessed their willingness to raise salaries for employees Society

When developing the domestic currency, computer games served as a source of inspiration, he said in an interview with Bloomberg. According to the top manager, thanks to Will, the number of overtime and unnecessary meetings has been reduced. Last tax year, the company reported record revenues and profits. The value of the company's share over the past five years has more than tripled from 9,190 yen in June 2016 to 33,900 yen in June 2021.

In April, 27.9% of employees of Russian companies announced a reduction in wages after switching to remote work, another 15% stated that their salary has increased, and more than half of those surveyed (57.1%) reported that remote work did not affect their pay. This followed from a survey conducted by a CRM developer for Megaplan among 1546 employees and managers of small and medium-sized businesses.

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