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Japan makes it very hard to lay off employees too, but unemployment is very low.
by midoridensha 4y ago
Japan makes it very hard to lay off employees too, but unemployment is very low.
- lll-o-lll 4y agoAlso Australia. From the outside (and this could well be the wrong take), it seems as though “at will employment” leads to cultural problems. People are afraid to speak their mind, and hierarchy becomes dominant. I like that Australia is a bit more egalitarian, and people can “speak truth to power”.
- 778hbff 4y agoHaving worked salary jobs in tech in both countries, I can tell you that hierarchies are a much bigger thing in Germany than in the U.S. In tech companies as well as in academia, FWIW. Her Professor, Herr Direktor, these are actually still a thing in Germany.
- OOPMan 4y agoYou might want to rephrase that because the way you stated it just seems kinda silly, as if somehow titled-obsessed idiots don't exist in US companies or something...
- lll-o-lll 4y agoI have worked in UK/Aus and for US owned/run and French owned/run (from aus) and aus owned/run (and others, I’m getting old). There definitely seemed to be a cultural difference with US based employees being much more reluctant to say anything negative (but this may have been nothing to do with at-will). I had assumed this was because they were afraid of losing their jobs by pissing off the wrong person, but it may well be something else entirely causing that. In Australia, you have the opposite problem of randoms going “that’ll never work” to a CEO (which is not exactly endearing).
- thisarticle 4y agoJapan also has a stagnant or declining labor pool size.
- weatherlite 4y agoSo does the U.S...
- sangnoir 4y agoYep, a lower-than-replacement birthrate combined with a hostile immigration policy that is against permanency will do that.
- midoridensha 4y ago> a hostile immigration policy that is against permanency will do that. Why are you spreading lies? Permanent residency is really, really easy to get in Japan, unlike the US where you have to win a lottery.
- alephnerd 4y agoWages for SWEs are lower than other comparable countries in Europe, Canada, and APAC (SG, AU, NZ) and Japanese fluency (not a PR requirement but still needed to live in Japan) is hard to acquire. Why deal with the headache of learning a hard to learn language not spoken outside of a handful of islands in the Northern Pacific with a very insular culture when you can become a German or Canadian national for much less effort.
- midoridensha 4y agoThe things you complain about do not equate to a "hostile immigration policy that is against permanency". SWE wages are lower than the US, yes, but not Europe in my experience. Japanese fluency is not needed for PR or even citizenship (you do need a little ability for naturalization). You don't need to be fluent to live in Japan; most of the expats I know are not fluent at all. German is also a very difficult language to learn, and you won't go far in Germany without it. It's much easier to be English-only in Japan than in Germany, in my experience.