Japanese Employees and Work: Update Feb. 20, 2024

 

Half of young employees hired during pandemic want to quit: Japan firm survey

Article Source: https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20231212/p2a/00m/0bu/011000c

Ideas:

It seems maybe that young people don't like their jobs these day, but most likely its a global situation and not just related to starting to work during the pandemic.

Maybe during the pandemic new workers, whatever the age, had to work from home, and they lost the chance or ability to communicate with other office staff.

And now when they finally were able to go to the office it took a long time for them to adjust to the new environment.

There might be many reasons, as today, again younger workers, for the most part, don't like their jobs and are looking for better work/life experiences with their jobs. This seems to be a global situation.

For example, some workers don't want to go back to the office as they have gotten used to working from home and or in coffee shops and so on.

Also maybe young working mothers prefer to work from home and not travel to an office everyday, as a way to take care of their children.

There are always to going to be some workers who are unhappy with their jobs, its a given, and an economy should be as flexible as possible that allows for workers to leave one job easily and find another job just as easy.

But it seems in Japan its not easy to leave one job and find a new job. If people in Japan could change jobs more easily, there might less of a job shortage, as people will move to the jobs they want and companies can more easily find workers they need and want.

Japan is facing a severe labor shortage, and the economy needs to change to allow for more flexibility which allows more older workers to continue to work and for more workers the chance to change to jobs they want to do.

Also, increase the chances for more working women in management positions and not just lower-level clerk type positions.

And also, and now many companies are give more benefits to women who work who have children, and this will keep them working instead of quitting when they have children.

More needs to be done in terms of work/life balance in Japan, as more and more younger workers don't want to same kind of work that their parents had with longer working hours, weekend work.

And unfortunately, there is an epidemic relate to the mental health of younger workers today, and its global, as the stress that young college graduates feels is more than any other generation before. 

But some companies don't see it or realize that the young worker today is not the same as the young workers 20 years ago.

Have a nice day and be safe!