It's pretty sad, really. This is actually a company sabotaging itself. Each additional hour of work isn't "free" for the company - you can't add an extra hour o

It's pretty sad, really. This is actually a company sabotaging itself. Each additional hour of work isn't "free" for the company - you can't add an extra hour of work to someone and expect the other hours worked won't be affected. Sitting around waiting for a boss to leave or re-doing work just means that the employee is going to do the rest of his work worse whether he wants to or not. Japan forcing overtime pay would probably be the single best way to boost their entire economy. I'm guessing they will never do it for unfortunate cultural reasons though.