Top business lobby urges four-day workweek as anti-infection step www.japantimes.co.jp

Japan’s most powerful business lobby on Thursday called on member companies to introduce a four-day workweek and seek flexible ways to hold upcoming shareholders meetings as part of guidelines on how to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus.
Major business regions such as Tokyo and Osaka, however, will remain under the state of emergency.
The business lobby also urged companies to consider ways to hold shareholders meetings without them gathering, such as by allowing them to exercise voting rights beforehand.
Many Japanese companies hold shareholders meetings in late June.
Companies were also advised to suspend nonessential business trips and conduct meetings and interviews or seminars with job-seekers online.