After the state of emergency was lifted, I know that the morning rush in Tokyo has begun again, according to news reports.

I'm more than a little shocked.

I had assumed that a significant portion of the workforce would shift to telework.

I thought that at least "staggered work hours would be the norm", but unfortunately, that doesn't seem to be the case.

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I was wondering how widespread the state of telework was prior to the outbreak of this disaster.

"I got a hit in a column I had written."

At that time, I was estimating "13% of the workforce".

In particular, this graph shows that the only work that can seriously adopt telework is the "service field".

Watching NHK news, we get the illusion that telework is being introduced everywhere.

In fact, I guess the news about those things are just rare cases.

Two months of declaring a state of emergency may not have been enough time to create communications literacy for all of the Japanese workers.

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However, my daughters are taking classes, conducting job interviews, and talking to their friends in a light-hearted way at "home".

So changes in the way people work through telework, triggered by the corona disaster, may emerge in the next 10 to 20 years.

If that is the case, then we may have to evaluate the "morning rush" in 10 years' time, not "now".