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Racism does actually restrict your competitiveness, theres been a bunch of studies done on this. Regardless of the availability of sufficiently skilled Japanese
by pm90 4y ago
Racism does actually restrict your competitiveness, theres been a bunch of studies done on this. Regardless of the availability of sufficiently skilled Japanese labor, humans are pretty non-fungible when it comes to specialized skills. Losing access to the worldwide pool of labor is just deliberately kneecapping their own companies.
- makeitdouble 4y agoYou are right that it restricts competitiveness, but even before that, integrating people thinking different and from different backgrounds requires a level of flexibility and resilience that is probably missing from these entities. It’s not rare to see Japanese people looking for companies that recruit foreigners and “exotic” profiles, using that as a canary to signal a company that can deal with a range of issues, and won’t try to have them quit if they take a parental leave.
- mbg721 4y agoHumans are non-fungible, but despite the rhetoric, I don't think any company is actually hiring the best people they possibly could. There's so much noise in the hiring process to begin with, I have a hard time believing that racism is the one obstacle between the status-quo and paradise. More likely, there are a hundred things wrong with the hiring process, and racism is number 86.