Japan has ramped up its push for companies to adopt a four-day workweek, but those efforts face steep challenges in a country famous for its workaholic culture.
"The reasons Japan ese work long hours are cultural and social; those things don't change quickly," said Tim Craig.aimed at promoting flexible work arrangements, shorter hours and overtime limits. To further encourage this initiative, the labor ministry has also begun
"If they go home early, then their colleagues will look askance at them, and have to work more to cover for them. Either way, it's not a good feeling," Craig elaborated. "Being part of a company is almost part of a community, and this results often in longer work hours, not as efficient work hours," he told CNBC.addressing Japan's excessively long working hours and their connection to depression and karoshi, or death from overwork. In 2022, 2,968 people in Japan died by suicide attributed to karoshi, an increase from 1,935 in 2021. Japan has not released its white paper for 2023's statistics yet.
"I think that it's going to take time to penetrate… we're not used to being flexible," said Hiroshi Ono, professor of human resources at Hitotsubashi University.
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