Japanese managers seem to be making a big deal about the current high number of job leavers, saying that “people these days have lost their patience”. However, they seem to be obsessed with exploiting workers only for their own convenience, when they need to change their management structure to keep up with the changes in Japanese society.
So why did the number of employees leaving the workforce increase? The turning point came after the bursting of the bubble economy, when the system was switched from lifetime employment and a seniority system to a performance/merit-based system. Until then, workers simply endured working longer because wages would increase if they worked longer. If they were to be treated as if they had worked for a long time and still received low wages, everyone would leave the workforce out of sheer stupidity.
If this is understood, then workers should be properly evaluated to motivate them. Unfortunately, however, the majority of Japanese companies are run on a “results-oriented” management style, while claiming to be “performance-oriented”. In other words, they do not evaluate the process, but only the end result. In addition, they favor their own relatives and are accustomed to each other with certain colleagues, so it is obvious that corruption is progressing within the organization and it is going to ruin it.
And when they do recruit, they only look to the young, whose numbers are dwindling due to the declining birthrate, and not to the middle-aged and elderly, who are the most common job seekers. This is a truly ridiculous phenomenon, in which companies are selective about who they recruit, while loudly claiming that there is a shortage of labor. What would we call this if we did not call it laughable? There are too many managers who are either unaware or unwilling to realize that they are in the wrong. It is no wonder that Japanese society is heading for a downfall. It seems inevitable that a major social security crisis will soon arrive. Sooner or later, we will not be able to recruit the human resources we need, and even if we seek them overseas, they will be unwilling to come to Japan, and we will have to sit and wait for them to die.
This is not a matter of “thinking” or “feeling” in a naïve and naïve way. It is not too much to assert, but rather too little to say. This is “the fact”, “the reality” and “the truth”. It’s not a matter of good or bad, it’s nothing more than a golden rule that can’t be described in any other way and has absolutely no room for doubt.