Questions

Short answers about how offices in Japan actually work. Every answer is built from the offices we have walked through.

• Do Japanese offices have nap rooms?Rarely a room built for sleeping — but the rest space is now standard. Across the offices WALL has walke…
• What is free address seating?Nobody owns a desk; you sit where the day’s work is. In Japan it is spreading fast — and the offic…
• Why do Japanese offices have tatami rooms?Tatami in an office is almost never for sitting. It marks a threshold — shoes off, slow down, this room …
• Do Japanese offices have their own canteens?The staff canteen is one of the oldest fixtures of the Japanese office, and the big ones still take it serious…