Sony staffer accused of embezzling $155M while working remotely

I find the focus on the employee being WFH very weird -- there's no justification for the remote work situation contributing to this theft. There's just a nebulous claim of too little oversight. But if Sony apparently allowed this employee to just directly transfer nine figures by saying "yeah my boss approved it" then I highly doubt they have robust safeguards to stop this from happening in an office environment either.

Looks like many companies in Japan are worried about remote working, something that is not a surprise given the slow rate of innovation of Japanese culture.

This is just a bad PR campaign against remote working. That someone can transfer more than 100 million without safeguards does not make any sense, working from home or not.

And if you can do that you are not a "Sony staffer" or worker, you are a Sony high ranking executive.

Unless this guy's manager constantly sat behind him and watched him over the shoulder when he worked in the office, I fail to see how remote working is a factor here.

On the flipside - I have to go through two levels of approval to expense a team lunch, how can some move around $155M with no paper trail of approval?