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1. 🔊 What industry do you work in and what is your role?
2. 🔊 What are your responses in your role / position?
3. 🔊 Can you describe to the function of your workplace / company?
4. 🔊 How many departments, how many offices. National or International?
5. 🔊 What are the minimum requirements for employment ie Education or Experience?
6. 🔊 How many opportunities are there to ‘move up the ladder’?
7. 🔊 What is the process for changing job roles ie Interview? Test?

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🔊 General discussion about your workweek:

1. 🔊 Current projects? Deadlines? Opportunities?
2. 🔊 Anything of interest happening?

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Script

1. 🔊 A radical rethink of work culture that threatens to push Tokyo office vacancy rates to new heights has the largest Japanese shared workspace provider preparing for an opportunity.

2. 🔊 The coronavirus outbreak caused a drop in TKP Corp.’s revenue, but while its shares are still down 43 percent for the year, they have jumped 165 percent from their March trough as investors look for a rebound.

3. 🔊 Takateru Kawano, TKP’s founder and chief executive, envisions transformation of the market over the next few years. He said the firm has seen new sources of demand emerge as companies implement business continuity plans and hold more webinars amid social distancing concerns.

4.🔊 “The pandemic has brought the need for such spaces all at once,” Kawano said in an interview last month. “Many companies will begin to shrink their office space, and in turn will look to decentralize and disperse employees to satellite offices.”

5.🔊 WeWork, which saw a drop in membership amid social distancing concerns, has also touted this “hub-and-spoke” model for companies looking to revamp their work cultures and use of buildings.

6.🔊 In Japan, firms including Fujitsu Ltd., Nomura Holdings Inc. and Toshiba Corp. have either moved to reduce office space already or are said to be considering doing so. Tokyo’s office vacancy rate has risen to over 3 percent, the highest since January 2018, and Morgan Stanley has said it could climb to record levels over the next five years.