TOKYO (Bloomberg) -- Yahoo Japan is telling its 8,000 employees they can work anywhere in the country -- and even be flown into work when the job requires it -- bucking the trend of companies looking to return workers to offices in the third year of the coronavirus pandemic.
The programmme takes effect April 1 and allows employees to commute by plane, which wasn’t previously an option, the company said in a statement Wednesday (Jan 12). While Yahoo is best known for its internet portal in Japan, it’s a unit of SoftBank Group Corp’s Z Holdings Corp, which also owns the Line messaging app and PayPay mobile payments service.