Allocating space at home for work has become a trend with the new generation in Thailand. The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications aims for around 1,000 companies to join the project this year to ease the morning commuter rush. By expanding the campaign period gradually every year toward 2020, the ministry hopes telework will take off in society in time for the Olympic period. In Japan, only around 16% of surveyed companies with over 100 employees have introduced a telework system. The administration of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has made reforming people's work style a key policy agenda, seeing the nation's chronically long working hours as having broad economic and social repercussions.

Source: Bangkok Post April 18, 2017 06:00 UTC