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Also, a major lack of good planning/scheduling. Things are always flexible when someone with enough social clout decides to change a schedule -- the department
by sdrothrock 9y ago
Also, a major lack of good planning/scheduling. Things are always flexible when someone with enough social clout decides to change a schedule -- the department head's friend had an idea? Suddenly you shoehorn it in. Boss's friend wants a demo? Suddenly you're rushing for a much closer deadline.
- threeseed 9y agoIt's not about planning. It's about the work/life culture. For many people the long hours is all year around.
- sdrothrock 9y agoIn my experience here, the lack of intelligent and sensible planning/scheduling is what, in many cases, causes the workload that drives the long hour problem all year round. If there's really nothing to do, broadly speaking, Japanese people are no more driven to stay at work than Americans. If there's work to do, then they feel obligated to put in the APPEARANCE of working hard, regardless of how much actual work is being done.
- JBlue42 9y agoSounds like my co-workers here in the US. A minority leave exactly after their 8; the rest work a lot of free hours and blame their industry culture, office culture, etc.