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TOKYO - AVITA Corporation, a Japanese company providing business solutions based on avatars, and Lawson Inc, which operates Lawson convenience stores throughout Japan, have entered into a collaboration.
Their goal is to provide potential employees with a new way of working not limited by factors such as "time" and "place of employment" or visually recognizable factors such as "age, gender, or disabilities." At the same time, Lawson hopes to provide consumers with a new form of contact-free customer service at their brick-and-mortar stores. Finally, by enabling remote work via avatars, Lawson seeks to alleviate their labor shortage and make night shift work more palatable.
Other advantages of avatar technology include enabling one person to work at multiple stores, implementing remote late-night crime prevention, providing online consultation with specialists, and remote and mobile sales of local specialty products.
Since both Lawson and AVITA share the same ideal of "expanding the possibilities of people" through service and technology, they came to an agreement in April, and began to test the viability of their collaboration on the use of avatar technology.
New hires at Lawson convenience stores to work remotely via avatars
AVITA Corporation, a Japanese company providing business solutions based on avatars, and Lawson Inc, which operates Lawson convenience stores throughout Japan, have entered into a collaboration. Their goal is to provide potential employees with a new way of working not limited by factors such as...
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