Cheers! Tokyo company will pay for telecommuting workers' online drinking parties soranews24.com

Working from home and drinking from home are both part of coronavirus countermeasures.
With modern technology, you can submit documents, forge contracts, access databases, and conduct meetings remotely…and now one Japanese company wants its employees to get drunk with their coworkers remotely too.
Tokyo-based Gree, one of Japan’s largest mobile game companies, has its staff of some 1,700 people telecommuting these days, what with a state of emergency declared for the city.
So Gree’s idea is to encourage coworkers have online drinking parties, utilizing the same sort of video chat software they’d use for video conferences.
Employees just need to hang on to their receipts and submit them at the end of the month to be reimbursed.