Please enable JavaScript.

Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.

Why does japan work so hard - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Mr. A worked at a major snack food processing company for as long as 110 hours a week (equivalent of four and a half days) and died from a heart attack at the age of 34. His death was recognized as work-related by the Labour Standards Office.
      - Ms. D, a 22-year-old nurse, died from a heart attack after 34 hours of continuous duty five times a month.
- - - - With regard to the membership-based employment system, as I mentioned in the former essay, when a Japanese company hires a regular employee, the company expects the employee to become a good member of the company. A good member is a person who helps his co-worker’s job and accepts with his supervisor’s requests with pleasure. At work places, new tasks that have to be dealt with emerge almost every day.Managers decide to whom the new tasks should be allocated while considering each worker’s workload. At the same time, the managers want to allocate such tasks to a talented subordinate, because talented subordinates always complete their tasks efficiently, showing their high productivity. However, even if a worker processes his work efficiently, his working hours become longer because of increased workload. An idea, “I want to be a good member,” makes working hours longer.
    - - Japanese apne kaam ko perfectly karne ki sochte hain aur yah aadat unke blood me hi hai. Unka minset hi yahi hai. Unse agar expect kiya jaata hai ki 100% work wo sahi se kare lekin wo apna 120% dete hain. Even if his supervisor says, “You don’t need to go that far,” his own feeling makes him seek the 120 percent result. In this way of working, it is not easy to correct long working hours.
    - - The third cause comes from relationships with customers. Sometimes there is a request from a customer, just before closing time, saying, “Could you bring that immediately?” At that time, regardless whether it is urgent or not, the worker has to deal with it immediately. It is based on an idea, “It is natural to deal with request from a customer immediately.” Each worker works according to his daily work schedule, but if once an unexpected request takes place and he has to respond to the request immediately, his original plan has to be changed. As the worker processes his original task after dealing with the request from customer, it is natural that his working hours become longer.