Social media posts lamenting the country’s continued use of hanko have become common over the past months.
According to JIPDEC, an organization that sells the progression of the virtual economy and commerce, only 43% of Japanese corporations were electronic contract systems as of January this year.
An organization of about thirty companies, adding a series of technological companies, recently conducted a survey on the employment policies of its members at home. Among the members who have implemented teleworking, 90% said their workers still had to go to why safe procedures require the use of Hanko.
One of those corporations is Asteria, a technological company founded in Tokyo. He abolished Hanko’s internal use and digitized all his advertising procedures to authorize his 70 members to stay at home. The company also asked its partners for the authorization to pass to electronic contracts. But the CEO Hirano Yoichiro says that some consumers want copies on paper documents. This means that some of their workers still have to go to the workplace regularly.
Some corporations resort to other bureaucracy of evidence of agreement. A formula allows corporations to place documents in units in the cloud online, available through the smartphone. A genuine real estate company indicates that the transition to the formula has the use of paper documents that Hanko requires and has helped the number of workers entering the office.
Many resorted to the formula after the government announced a request that stays at home in early April. Remember it is used through more than 65,000Array
To announce teleworking policies, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has asked ministers to review practices that require physical documents and stamps.
But a distance from Hanko would be bad news for the corporations that make or sell them. Kobayashi Akio, President of Japan Seal Business Management Association
This is lately the case of many owners of small and medium -sized business housing requesting subsidies from the emergency government. Applications must be presented online and many other people who are not familiar with the format, and more accustomed to completing the physical bureaucracy that they Stamp with their Hanko would fight.