Abstract
The psychological phenomenon so called, "Children See. Children Do." may influence the work style in subsequent generations, under present circumstances most parents who are corporate employees commute to their offices which children observe either directly or via TV media. Corporate telework option, which includes the benefit of working at home using ICT technology, was explained by elementary school teachers to 112 schoolchildren of grades 3 to 6 years in elementary school. This was followed by qualitative research regarding whether the children desired collective work or telework, using a questionnaire method. As a result, the children who wished to work by commuting and collective work at offices was approximately 77% among respondents who answered that their desired occupation is to be employed at a company and/or public institution. Moreover, there was a tendency for the children who desire work at an office to increase as their school year goes up. The author also observed from the open-ended questionnaire the children's socio-psychological consciousness or social precociousness manifested by the teachers' explanation of telework, from the schoolchildren's answers such as "Sense of work cannot be obtained if working at home" and "Collective work with colleagues is fun". Fact that schoolchildren already have such sense and may become obstacles to corporate telework in future have not been reported in past research studies.
