Fujitsu Ltd has introduced a Teleworking Station, claiming to be the first in the industry to provide a combined data processing and communications system for systems engineers and salespeople working outside their regular office. The system is designed to perform three functions: the fixed office function, enabling the employee that is out of the office […]
Fujitsu Ltd has introduced a Teleworking Station, claiming to be the first in the industry to provide a combined data processing and communications system for systems engineers and salespeople working outside their regular office. The system is designed to perform three functions: the fixed office function, enabling the employee that is out of the office to interact with advanced system funct-ions as if sitting at his or her desk; the office-on-the-move or classroom-to-go for communicating while on the move; and the portable system functions that will come with the complete implementation of digital communications. Fujitsu has felt the need for these functions itself, with the splitting of its System Laboratories, previously at one site in Kamata, over two sites, the other being the new Systems Laboratories at Makuhari. According to a survey of 650 of its own employees, the time saved by not having to return to the office at the end of a day working at the customer site would be around 50 minutes’ travel time, adding to a total of an extra 10 hours per month. By making such savings in time, Fujitsu is decreasing its overtime bill in these financially restrictive times, as well as piling up kudos for itself in Japanese society, where the present government has declared a national goal of becoming a lifestyle superpower.
