Yes, in my experience, home broadband access/speed is very good in Tokyo and Japan’s giving S.Korea a good run for their infrastructure money!

Just to qualify my initial comments a little. There are many small to medium sized businesses here that use flexible working arrangements and want to keep their rental footprint to a minimum.

btw, I’ve visited Cisco Japan’s HQ in Akasaka and was impressed with the ‘mobile office’ approach within the building. Since road warriors don’t need an office desk most of the time, many fixed costs associated with an employee’s office footprint can be reduced or eliminated. Interesting times we’re living in.

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In Japan we have a little over 300 CVO clients, about 16% of the Cisco workforce there. This doesn’t however indicate the number of people there who telecommute at least some of the time since clients there can also use software VPN for occasional remote access.

This is especially interesting because Japan also has the fastest ISP connections I am aware of; just about anyone there could run high-def video over IP from a home office!

In a future post I will see if I can provide a workforce breakdown by country as you suggested.

Regards

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Of course, the US seems very suited to telecommuting because of journey times and a flexible approach to working outside of a company’s premises.

It would be interesting to see a breakdown by region or even country. It may take longer (if ever…) for the same to catch on in countries like Japan, where housing space is generally much smaller and the “social contract” at many companies has employees grafting away in full view of their managers.

What % of Cisco Japan staff telecommute one day a week?

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