File Pohto - by Neil Daftary on Unsplash. Please contact us for subscription options. Related topics abuse human rights Japan Japan International Cooperation Agency migrant workers Overtime unpaid work smartphone app Worker rights. Japan's Toshiba says it will split into 3 firms. Japan will resolutely say what it needs to say: Foreign minister on ties with China.
To enjoy our content, please include The Japan Times on your ad-blocker's list of approved sites. Importantly, the report makes clear it is focusing on workers who do not need to work a second job just for financial reasons, but rather it is looking at people who are dissatisfied and want a change.
The report gives the example of an IT systems engineer taking on a role as an educator as a way skills can be transferred for the common good. Another case study details how a human resources staffer was able to help small regional businesses develop more advanced personnel systems.
It said the upsides could outweigh the potential problems, however, with such programs able to potentially spur innovation when employees acquire new insights outside of their companies.
That was The latest figures released in July showed that working remotely had been adopted by only He cites three primary factors inhibiting the proliferation of remote work in Japan: type of occupation, working environments and management mentality.
Meanwhile, many small and midsize businesses lack the necessary hardware and software — laptops, data storage, workplace collaboration apps and so on — to support the work style, Ishii says. While many firms no longer allow her to book in-person sales appointments due to infection risks, she says her company considers it essential for insurance agents to meet potential customers face to face.
The government has been pushing remote work for years. And perhaps most crucial to corporations, young job seekers are increasingly raising the availability of working remotely as a priority when scouting for potential employers. In a survey conducted in February by Gakujo Co. Kaori, who works for the manufacturer in Nara, agrees. As an HR representative, she often interviews college students seeking jobs, some of whom appear to lose interest when she mentions that remote work is not possible at her company.
Irregular worker numbers in Japan are up from 10 per cent in , to 40 per cent, while those on full-time, regular contracts do not feel able to quit, no matter how intolerable work becomes.
The government accepts around workplace injury claims for karoshi annually, but campaigners have put the toll at around 10, deaths. A hotline run by the National Defense Council for Victims of Karoshi to seek government compensation for work-induced stress, disease or disability receives between and calls every year.
But other gaps in the law enabling chronic overwork were allowed to continue. For the first time, a cap was introduced on overtime — but it was set perilously high, at 80 hours a month. On top of an eight-hour day, that averages to a hour week of overtime.
These uneasy alliances between governments, companies and workers are hardly unique to Japan.
0コメント