With Long Working Hours, Japan Ever So Lazy State

Tuesday, March 1, 2016

During this time, Japan is known as a country with long working hours in which most of the time the employee discharged finish the job in the office. Although good for the economic turnaround, but the length of the work culture is jeopardizing the health of employees.

Excessive working conditions can make a drastically reduced employee productivity. This is most likely the main cause of the entry of Japan into the ranks of the laziest country in the world in 2012.

A total of 60.2 percent of the population goes into the category of the population are not active or sedentary and physical activity outside of work. Whereas in many other places, a strong labor market is now pushing the balance of power of the company for the job.
However, under the support of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the employee in Japan can now say goodbye to the culture of long working hours. Here's a brief review of the entry of Japan into the category of the laziest countries in the world as quoted from page Business Insider, Forbes, and the International Business Times, Friday (06/05/2015):.

 

 

Japanese citizens workaholic

Almost all employees in many countries receive vacation time for a vacation. But it is true, the boss will not encourage you to do so.

In 2011, Ipsos Global and Reuters conducted a survey on 13 thousand people in developed countries to see if the people use ration off. As a result, Japan ranks first as the country with employees who palign workaholic.

Imagine, just 33 percent of the Japanese people who take the leave quota. Though Japan has a considerable amount off about 16 a national holiday.

Unfortunately, the average employee to work up to 1,714 hours per year. Most likely, the workaholic attitude that makes employees rarely do other activities and considered not active outside of work.

 

Famous Japanese citizens trim

Although rarely move outside of work, the famous Japanese citizens away from the problem of obesity. Whereas the developed countries, Japan faces many obstacles such as low birth rate, an aging population quickly and cost of health insurance is expensive and the economy is growing stagnant.

According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), only about 3.5 percent of Japan's population is growing fatter and categorized as obese. One reason, though Japanese people rarely move, but the food consumed is very healthy.

Everyday, the famous Japanese people consume more traditional foods menu like brown rice, fish, soups, vegetables and fruit. Japanese people very rarely eat red meat that makes its employees tend to be healthy despite having to work long hours.

 

 

Japan end the culture of long working

With the support of the Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe, the employees in the State Sakura can now say goodbye to the culture of long working hours. During this time, super long working hours in the office, followed by long nights spent drinking with relatives has become a symbol of the employees of Japanese comics.

Work culture with the long hours may reduce employee productivity at the expense of the company. In fact, companies are trying to push the performance of employees with the long working hours.

But now, companies in Japan began to implement a culture of normal working hours as found in many other countries in the world.

Stock trading Itochu hopes to attract the best graduates by the time of entry and return to work earlier. While the machine manufacturers printer (printer) Ricoh forbids its employees to work more than 8:00 PM.