Tokyo company will pay for telecommuting workers’ online drinking parties

TOKYO - While there’s obviously never a good time for an outbreak of a lethal, highly contagious disease, we are at least lucky that the coronavirus pandemic is occurring at a time in human history when many jobs can be done from home. With modern technology, you can submit documents, forge contracts, access databases, and conduct meetings remotely…and now one Japanese company wants its employees to get drunk with their coworkers remotely too.