When ‘Remote Work’ Goes ‘Really Remote’

Covid-19 pandemic drives dramatic changes to workforces

By: Xiaochen Su

The work-at-home movement spawned by the Covid-19 epidemic is raising the possibility that new foreign employees could find and then work for employers without the need to ever physically set foot in the employer country at all.

Japan, because of its shrinking domestic workforce and its growing restrictions on travel because of the virus,…