Japanese company that uses drones to prevent overtime of employees

About 25% of Japanese company employees in Japan make a weekly journey of over 80 hours

The stereotypes say that Japanese work hard. In fact they have long daily journeys and have the habit of working a lot of overtime. The problem is that companies are not always willing to pay extra time for employees, and to control this habit, a company in Japan is planning to use drones to warn workers to go home.

The numbers are impressive: about 25% of employees of Japanese companies in Japan make a weekly journey of more than 80 hours, almost double what is allowed by law here in Brazil. Death tolls from overwork are alarming and last October a woman died after accumulating almost 160 extra hours of work.

Got my eyes on you

Taisei's idea is to use drones that will fly down the corridors of the company's office singing songs and telling employees to go home. You can't tell if it's going to help a lot to change this work culture 24/7, but it's a first step to at least remind workers that “all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy” (saying that made famous by the movie "The Shining" and that means "just work and no fun make Jack a boring guy").

The first drone testing is due to take place in April 2018.

According to a company representative, the drones will be playing the famous Scottish song Auld Lang Syne (which you may have heard). This song is famous in Japan for playing in malls and other malls when stores are closing. The first tests with the drones should take place in April 2018 and Taisei intends to sell the service to other companies for 50, 000 yen, or $ 1, 460.

Japanese company using drones to stop overtime employees via TecMundo