Whether to make a work interval system mandatory has become a key issue as the Japanese government considers revising working-hour regulations.
Companies are currently only required to make efforts to introduce the system, which has yet to take root in Japan, with an adoption rate of just 6.9%.
Under the system, employees are required to have a certain number of hours of rest between the end of one workday and the start of the next.
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