October 31, 2025 November is Telework Month

- We will implement intensive initiatives to promote the spread of telework -

　The Telework Month Executive Committee (composed of representatives from the Cabinet Secretariat’s Cabinet Bureau of Personnel Affairs, the Cabinet Office’s Office for Promotion of Regional Revitalization, the Digital Agency, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC), the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW), the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT), the Japan Tourism Agency, the Ministry of the Environment (MOE), the Japan Telework Association, and the Japan Telework Society) will undertake intensive activities to promote the spread of telework in November, which has been designated a telework month.

Note: The published materials are in Japanese only.

　During Telework Month, the MIC will collaborate with related ministries, agencies, and organizations to hold events and activities aimed at further promoting and establishing telework as a flexible work style that makes effective use of time and space.

■ Major initiatives

1. The MIC will join forces with the Cabinet Secretariat, Cabinet Office, the Digital Agency, MHLW, METI, MLIT, the Japan Tourism Agency, and MOE to issue a request for prefectures, government-designated cities, and economic organizations, etc., to cooperate with Telework Month.
2. We will hold seminars across Japan with the purpose of promoting and establishing telework.
3. To provide companies and organizations intending to introduce and utilize telework with references, we will solicit and select exemplary cases as "Telework Top Runner 2025." In this context, we will hold an award ceremony on Wednesday, November 19, 2025 to recognize particularly outstanding initiatives as recipients of the "Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications Award for Telework Top Runner 2025."
   The award ceremony will be held jointly with the "Shining Telework Award" ceremony by the MHLW and the "Region Revitalizing Telework Award" ceremony by the Cabinet Office’s Office for Promotion of Regional Revitalization.
   *For more information on the "Telework Top Runner 2025" and the award ceremony, please click here.
4. The Telework Month website is inviting individuals and organizations who support the purpose and objectives of Telework Month and who will engage in telework initiatives during the period. We encourage you to actively participate in Telework Month activities by making full use of the official Telework Month logo and posters available on the website.
   Additionally, by registering your activities through the Telework Month website, your individual/organization name will be displayed on the site. We look forward to your active participation and registration.
   *Telework Month website: https://www.soumu.go.jp/teleworkgekkan/