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> it's highly efficient Most definitely not. Japanese working culture is notorious for rigidity, lack of transparency, and slow decision-making. Workers are ex
by Mo3 4y ago
> it's highly efficient
Most definitely not. Japanese working culture is notorious for rigidity, lack of transparency, and slow decision-making. Workers are exploited, despite few possibilities for promotion, wildly unreasonable expectations are common. Many employees work for 80 or more hours each week, with many of those hours considered unpaid overtime. Even after the workday is over, workers are expected to spend their free time socializing with colleagues outside of work. Workers who take measures to improve their mental health are met with a level of stigma, and many are told to simply get some rest, while at the same time suffering constant pressure to always be working with no time to relax.
It's like end-stage America, if anything.
- suction 4y agoI agree with you - I'm very aware of the dark side and would not recommend to anyone working in Japan. But even when the people suffer like you described, they do their work efficiently (exceptions apply) because there's some kind of nationalistic mindset of "we can't embarrass Japan" that keeps them going against their nature.
- somedude895 4y agoThey surely do their work diligently. Efficiently? I don't think so.
- soraminazuki 4y ago> there's some kind of nationalistic mindset of "we can't embarrass Japan" that keeps them going against their nature That kind of mindset is stereotypical of the 1940s maybe, but would be regarded as crazy today for someone just going about their work.