海外の反応-日本の労働環境は異常だという固定観念がありますがこれは事実なのか?

There is a stereotype that Japan’s working environment is abnormal. Do you think this is true?
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日本の労働環境について、Reddit で「1日12時間以上働く」「終業後に会社の飲み会」「有給ほぼ取れない」っていう投稿をよく見るけど、あれ本当なの?
自分の周りではそんな働き方してる人見たことないんだよね。
もし本当にそんな会社があるなら、普通に訴えられるレベルじゃない?
なんか30〜40年前の日本のイメージをそのまま引きずったステレオタイプって感じで、めちゃくちゃ時代遅れだと思うだが。

海外のナナシさん

“If there really were a company that made employees work like that, the employees should sue them.”
maybe in your head but not in reality

海外のナナシさん

They should and they sometimes do and they sometimes win but it rarely changes anything. My understanding is usually the fines or consequences are pretty small so it’s often still worth it even if companies get caught

海外のナナシさん

It definitely changed things. Big companies are extremely strict about following labor laws these days. That culture is cascading down to medium sized companies but will take time. Small companies will always be the wild west.

海外のナナシさん

Stereotype? You mean decades of recorded history, right?

海外のナナシさん

I’m in my 30s and Japanese, and I’ve barely ever seen anyone like that. Daily after-work drinking sessions at the company are just a joke to me.

海外のナナシさん

Hmmm not sure about white collared jobs but some of my Japanese teacher colleagues definitely are overworked. A first year teacher regularly went home at around 7 each night.
Also healthcare providers work a lot.

海外のナナシさん

Indeed, I’ve seen on the news that the way school teachers work has been considered problematic in recent years. In Japan, club activities at schools are established as part of the culture, but they are made possible because the teachers in charge often work on their days off. This issue should be addressed and improved.
Also, I’ve heard from a few friends who are nurses that when they go to work, they need to hand over patient information and other tasks every day, but it seems that the time spent on these handovers is unpaid.

海外のナナシさん

well if all they do is work… you won’t be seeing much of them right? you only interact with people who have a life

海外のナナシさん

I’m Japanese, so I have friends and acquaintances from all kinds of industries, from local friends to university friends, but I don’t have any friends who work like that, and I’ve never heard of anyone doing so. What I want to emphasize is the part about having work-related drinking parties almost every day.
I’m not saying that there are no people who work like that. What I want to argue is that the stereotype that this kind of working style is common throughout Japan is either wrong or outdated.

海外のナナシさん

It’s accurate in the sense that some people do work in companies where that is the case. I would think that the working culture here has improved though, and in my company you rarely get all three of those. (People do work 12 hour days but very few nomikai and paid leave is very easy to take). The question is not whether it happens but how widespread it is.

海外のナナシさん

School teachers still have it bad. Six days a week here. Seven if you have a sports club.

海外のナナシさん

I can take paid leave anytime without question, never stay past 7 (10-7), and no after hour calls. I’m also the only foreigner in my 100% Japanese spoken workplace.
Said place probably still exists, but my friends never really complained about it so probably just an outdated stereotype.

海外のナナシさん

There are a fair number of “black” companies but what’s strange to me is the employees often make no effort to change jobs. I’ve asked people “why don’t you try to change jobs?” and it’s like they don’t want to.

海外のナナシさん

At my last company, people totally milked the overtime system.

海外のナナシさん

Same here. They can get more muhnay.

海外のナナシさん

If they’re getting paid for it

In many big company offices people are still doing “service zangyou” aka “gimmu zangyou”….. obligatory unpaid overtime.

When working in another company’s office many years ago on a special overnight work visit for my own company, I saw all the client company’s engineers get up from their desks at around 6pm and punch their time cards. They then walked straight back to their desks. They didn’t leave the office until 10~11pm or even later for some. So none of their overtime was ever recorded or paid and it was more or less a ritual every day apparently.

I was stunned and asked why they did that. The reason is that they apparently felt “privileged to have such prestigious engineering positions” and their base salaries were somewhat above average. So they “gave back” to the company with servitude hours as a ‘thank you” to ensure their job and company stability.

Of course in the meantime, many workers have recently switched to highly volatile hourly contract work but they at least get paid for their hours that way. The job market though, is now dominated by workers without any job security.

I seriously hope things have changed for the sad salary guys who never got out of the old system but I doubt it. I guess they get good pensions after sacrificing their life though.

海外のナナシさん

Yeah, I’m a people manager and we have a generous overtime policy for non-people managers.
My employees routinely earn more than me.

They aren’t productive late hours into the evening. If I ensure they are productive (actually working and not sitting around gossiping or eating) I get accused of overworking them. I’ve worked for 3 companies in Japan and this is a common pattern for all 3.

海外のナナシさん

Everybody does that. Why clock in fewer hours if it makes you look less busy and you get paid less.

海外のナナシさん

They are plenty I think even it is changing slowly for years and probably much better than 50 years ago. Especially long taking vacation (like few weeks in a row like in Europe) is not common at all. At max 1 week. Then you have all the ‘black’ company who enjoy pressuring to the max or the old company keeping strict rules and hierarchy. You don’t sue a company that easily and japanese are still very much in the ‘gaman’ mind set. There are still karoshi and the Takaichi stance on work remind it to everybody.

海外のナナシさん

Do you take more than one week holiday as a foreigner?

My Japanese husband takes 2 weeks once a year but he always has the excuse of “seeing foreign in-laws/relatives”.

海外のナナシさん

I think it’s quite standard in Japan to take five weekdays off once a year, and including the weekends before and after, have an 11-day holiday.

Also, the Obon holidays and the New Year holidays are fairly long. However, I don’t think it would be feasible in Japan to take a long vacation of more than a month like in Europe.

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