Japanese company’s unique work-from-home rule: Pays a part of salary to office-goers who work from home
Japan’s semiconductor equipment maker Disco Corp has come out with a unique rule for the corona epidemic work from system. In the company, employees working from home working from home pay a part of their salary to the employees coming to the office. It is said that office goers are brave and this money is their reward.
This Tokyo-based company has been ahead of the start in doing such a different thing. Since about a decade ago, this company runs its own internal currency, which is called Will. Here the sales team gives this currency to the factory workers instead of producing the goods. Which they get the product designed by giving it to the engineers. Even the office desk, PC and meeting rooms are also priced here. When the buys are sold, every quarter the yen is paid against this currency.
When the pandemic struck, the disco did not have the option to allow all its employees to work from home. In such a situation some people needed to come to the factory. Then the company created a system in which the employees working from home pay a fixed amount to the workers coming to the office. This amount is distributed to all the people who come to the factory.
Kazuma Sekiya, CEO of Disco, said in the interview that we have 5600 employees. If we had called some factories and allowed some to work from home, it would have been wrong. We have offered company currency as behavioral incentives and it is up to the employee to choose.
Sekia’s grandfather founded the disco in 1937. Taking inspiration from a video game, this system was implemented in the year 2011. The company gives credit to Will for reducing overtime and reducing unnecessary meetings. The company has also got the result of this. In the last financial year, the company generated record revenue and profits, which are among the highest in the industry. The company’s shares have more than tripled in value in the past five years.
