Is this Worker Satisfaction … or Hotel California?
well technically speaking a while back they closed their redwood city California location and everyone there was functionally fired.
As much crap as Nintendo gets here (plenty of it well deserved), the way they treat their employees seems to be quite good. And in the face of whatever the fuck is going on in most tech companies, it’s nice to see
Also rarely get the credit they deserve
And Japan has a toxic work life balance
Isn’t the latter true for basically all of Japan?
from what I hear historically yes, but japan has basically been joining the rest of the world with it’s practices.
IE old days of japan, were the common pitched story “worker/employee loyalty, 2 way street”, and culturally both firing and quitting were looked at so negatively on either side that when an employee wasn’t working out, there were 2 practices oidashibeya and madogiwazoku.
Madogiwazoku came first, and basically it was more or less "we have nothing for you anymore, but it’s worse to fire you than have you on staff, have a comfortable room with a view and just sit around reading the newspaper for your shift.
Oidashibeya was the more hostile version of it. In short, it’s we hate you, we want to fire you, but we can’t do that, so we’ll put you in the smallest most uncomfortable spot we can, with no assignments or options to do anything. Fingers crossed you’ll chose to quit.
But like the rest of the world, companies stopped giving a crap, had more regular layoffs etc… and as a result employees stopped trusting it.
https://fortune.com/article/japan-work-ethic-declining-45-percent-of-workers-quiet-quitting/
It’s certainly not the old historic days where, no one ever leaves their job, and employers wouldn’t fire them even if they want to.
I get that cultural change is happening but how much better, if at all, are these employment numbers compared to the Japanese norm? I very much doubt that the touted “great” employment of the article is that great if we didn’t compare it to entire other cultures. Maybe Sony’s Japanese employment would be a good comparison?
It’s possible but their turnover rate for US and Europe is also much less than other companies.
