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Working from Home During COVID-19: Small Business Success Story

日本語はこちら: スモールビジネスのサクセスストーリー Throughout this series, I’ve provided some examples of work-from-home life from the perspective of a worker. Now I’d like to share what WFH has been like from the perspective of an employer. I had an interview with small business owner Julie Azuma of Different Roads to Learning, a company that provides autism spectrum resources and teaching materials. Julie started her business in 1995, … Continue reading Working from Home During COVID-19: Small Business Success Story
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Working from Home During COVID-19: Corporate and Work Culture in Times of Crisis (Communication) – Part 3

日本語はこちら: コロナ時代における企業文化とワークスタイル (コミュニケーション) – パート3 In her previous two posts, Yvonne Burton of Burton Consulting International wrote about corporate and work culture in a time of crisis and a focus on technology. In the third part of this week’s trilogy, she addresses communication. Technology is only a part of the challenges facing Japan and many of its companies. What is communicated in normal times and … Continue reading Working from Home During COVID-19: Corporate and Work Culture in Times of Crisis (Communication) – Part 3
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Working from Home During COVID-19: Corporate and Work Culture in Times of Crisis (Technology) — Part 2

日本語はこちら: (テクノロジー) — パート2 On April 27, 2020 Yvonne Burton of Burton Consulting International wrote about corporate and work culture in a time of crisis. Here, she continues on that theme, with her focus on technology. I am sure that many large and medium-sized Japanese companies have established processes for WFH, but for those that are finding it most difficult at this time to transition … Continue reading Working from Home During COVID-19: Corporate and Work Culture in Times of Crisis (Technology) — Part 2
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Working from Home During COVID-19: Corporate and Work Culture in Times of Crisis

日本語はこちら: コロナ時代における企業文化とワークスタイル Whatever your company’s culture, good or bad, it will be magnified in times of crisis. If a company has an overall healthy culture to begin with, in many ways these challenging times will be easier to manage. If it had a problematic or toxic culture, it will be magnified now and make it harder while employees are working home. In the case of … Continue reading Working from Home During COVID-19: Corporate and Work Culture in Times of Crisis
Susan
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Working from Home During COVID-19: A Different Type of Culture

日本語はこちら: 異なる種類の文化 JapanCulture•NYC mainly writes about Japanese culture in terms of events, food, drink, literature, music, and dance. In this COVID-19 era, I am working with Susan because we wanted to adapt the site to support and encourage her readers/followers who are working from home as well as struggling businesses as they navigate through this time. Now we want to talk about different types of … Continue reading Working from Home During COVID-19: A Different Type of Culture
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