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Osaka, Japan mandatory civil servants off-duty computer to point will be forced to shut down

Original title: Osaka, Japan reduces government staff overtime: forced shutdown of computers at 18:30

On November 28, yowen Yoshimura, governor of Osaka Prefecture, announced on the 27th that all office computers will be forcibly shut down at 18:30 in order to reduce overtime of government employees.

According to Japan's Sankei Shimbun reported on November 27, Osaka Prefecture will officially introduce the forced shutdown system in 2020 to reduce government employees' overtime and improve work efficiency. It is said that Osaka staff work about 1 million hours of overtime every year, with a total overtime payment of about 3 billion yen (about 200 million yuan), while the budget of the new system is about 50 million yen (about 3.22 million yuan).

After the system starts running, if you do not apply for overtime in advance, all government office computers will pop up a warning of 'please finish work quickly and turn off the computer' at 18:20, and will automatically turn off after 10 minutes.

However, in case of natural disasters, the forced shutdown function can be released. Its applicable objects will include about 7600 non management government employees in Osaka Police, public schools and other departments.

The news also make complaints about the Japanese Internet. Some netizens Tucao said that this is forcing the staff to bring home work, and netizens said they could work overtime even without computer.

The governor of Jicun said at the press conference that day that the introduction of this function is mainly to reduce overtime, protect the health of employees and improve work efficiency.