Only in Japan – A drone that will find overworking employees


Overwork is a serious issue in Japan. A few months back an employee of a Japanese TV broadcaster suffered a heart attack and died at her workplace, she was 31 and had clocked in 159 hours of overtime in a month. Incidents like these have given birth to the term ‘karoshi’ (death from overwork). In a bid to overcome this issue a building maintenance company will be making use of an ‘T-Friend’ an ingenious service that offers the industry’s first indoor drone that tracks overworking employees. The pizza box sized drone uses a series of markers that are placed in the room for guidance to fly over the office floor. The drone has a video camera that records the footage of the office which is later examined by a supervisor to find out over working employees. t can take off, land and fly without an operator, in the next stage it will be able to charge automatically as well.

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Safety tests are still underway and the service is scheduled into service by April next year.

[Via:Taisei]

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