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How Japan's Telework Revolution Is Rewriting Productivity
In the summer of 2026, Japan's productivity puzzle took an unexpected turn. For decades, the country lagged behind other advanced economies in output per hour, despite a culture famous for long working hours. But a quiet revolution in telework—accelerated by pandemic experiments and now embedded in corporate life—is finally moving the needle. In this episode, Lucas and Luna unpack the numbers: how Japan's remote-work adoption rate jumped from single digits to over thirty percent in major cities, and why that shift is linked to a measurable uptick in productivity growth. They explore…
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