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May 15 2021 Fumiharu Mieno Comments on Teleworker Performance in the COVID-19 Era in Japan Author and Article Information Online ISSN: 1536-0083 Print ISSN: 1535-3516 © 2021 by the Asian Economic Panel and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology2021American Society of Health Economists and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Asian Economic Papers (2021) 20 (2): 193–194. https://doi.org/10.1162/asep_a_00830 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Search Site Citation Fumiharu Mieno Comments on Teleworker Performance in the COVID-19 Era in Japan. Asian Economic Papers 2021; 20 (2): 193–194. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/asep_a_00830 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAll JournalsAsian Economic Papers Search Advanced Search Fumiharu Mieno, Kyoto University: The paper by Toshihiro Okubo, Atsushi Inoue, and Kozue Sekijima investigates how much telework spread in Japan and changed worker efficiency because of COVID-19, based on a large-scale questionnaire survey. The paper conducted a survey in April and June 2020 on employees who shifted to telework, asking them about the change in working environment and their subjective impressions of their own working efficiency. The results found various stylized facts: (1) the earlier the shift to telework, the better the worker's efficiency; (2) experience and number of telework hours matter more for efficiency than workers’ base ICT skills; (3) the positive effect of telework on efficiency is highest in very small establishments and large-sized companies; (4) as for work environment, a flexible time management system enhanced the efficiency-improving effect of telework, while a results-based evaluation system led to the opposite effect; and (5) workers’ efficiency tended to... You do not currently have access to this content.
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