The working environment in Japan
Job life is not easy. Many of us spend much part of our life working for a company or business. Even if you are a business owner, you have to hard for long hours. But what we need to enjoy our job life with a proper work-life balance and to have enough breathers so that employees stay active.
Recently, Japan is welcoming foreign workers because of the workforce gap they were facing. When it comes to working in a different country, it is challenging for an individual to adjust to the rules and cultures. If you are planning to shift to Japan for your jobs, it is better to know some working facts about the country:
- Japan is famous for long working hours. Often the Japanese workers are deprived of working late, and the overtime work is unpaid. But, with the new laws, they are changing the working hours for every employee.
- As part of Japanese tradition, there is a norm of drinking with colleagues and co-workers after work. There is a famous term for this tradition known as ‘nomunication’ or ‘nomikai.’ The meaning of this word is drinking while communicating. Though, the younger generation is refraining from this tradition because of the late-night drinking session.
- In the Japanese work environment, they give importance to the hierarchical relationship. Every employee should maintain this senior and junior relationship in the office and always follow their senior’s opinions and thoughts.
- The offices in Japan follows the open workspace culture rather than individual cubicles. The open-space office makes the work area more clumsy and noisy.
It is essential to maintain a friendly work environment. No matter where you work, you have to follow the local working culture to adjust to the company and the country.