In spring 2020, Japan was under a state of emergency because of COVID-19. The company SmartHR wrote of hanko shukkin, going to the office in order to stamp a seal on documents. On May 1, 2020, the company Paperlogic surveyed 105 office workers. 44.8 percent said that they had gone to the office at least once, even under the state of emergency, to stamp contracts or ringi approval documents.