July 7, 2022
Keio University
Professor Toshihiro Okubo of the Faculty of Economics, Keio University, has been regularly conducting large-scale surveys on telework and the work, lives, and attitudes of workers in Japan amid the spread of COVID-19 since April 2020, when the pandemic began. This is the seventh "Survey on the Actual Conditions of Teleworking," a large-scale nationwide survey of 10,000 workers conducted jointly with the Nippon Institute for Research Advancement (NIRA). This latest survey also investigated awareness regarding security in relation to the Ukraine crisis.
According to the preliminary results of the 7th survey, Russia's invasion of Ukraine has strengthened the idea of promoting domestic resource procurement and food security. The findings suggest the potential emergence of a policy direction that favors a shift to clean energy over nuclear power and aims to increase the food self-sufficiency rate without resorting to protectionism. The current telework utilization rate was 15%, a 1% decrease from January 2022, and it was also found that an increasing number of people support economic measures over infectious disease control policies.
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