Sunday, February 25, 2007
Why do you think it is becoming more common for people to change their job?
The grwoing shift from the lifetime employment system and seniority system to the performance-based pay system has been significant for the last two decade. Under the merit system, workers have no qualms about changing their jobs for better working conditions. The other is declining loyalty to companies. Because of the influence of Western liberalism and individulaism, they don't hesitate to quit their jobs for freewheeling lifestyle.
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May be it is due to change of Japanese work ethics.
Japanese work ethics used to be was something like that when college students graduate, they get employed and keep working in that one specific company for lifetime without changing their companies or jobs, paying allegiance to that company. Job hopping was quite unacceptable in Japanese society those days. It just gave their employers the uncomfortable feelings that those job hoppers probably lacked of perseverence and ability to cordinate to others.
But the situation surrounding employment has been rapidly changing.
After the burst of bubble economy in early 90s, many companies began restructuring of management, which led to firing so many middle aged and senior workes.
Here, traditional Japanese work style so called seniority and lifelong employment system began to collapse. To cut human resorce fee, many companies began to hire temporary workers, which are never guaranteed long term hiring. Looking from the workers' side, since jobs are so scarce, so many of them have no choice but to be temporary workers or part-timers so called freeters. Still in many of big corporations and governmental positions, seniority and lifetime employ system has been working, but this traditional japanese style is becoming more and more dificult to be found in especially small or middle-sized companies. Now it is said about 40% of all labor force are temporaly employed staffs.
Under this circumstanfce, even if the workers hoped to get employed for a long term, it is difficult for their wish to be fullfilled. Workers especially part-timers recently have tendencies to get fired so easily, which was never seen before. This trend is boosting mobility in laborforce, forming general sence that changing job is not so unusual.
Hello, Take-san. What do you think of job changing from succession of craftmanship point of view? The more companies depend on Freeters or part-timers, the more technology/craftmanship will not be succeded to the next generation. It's a hot potato.
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