How do the Japanese work? #economy
Look this is a typical American office each employee has their own cubicle where they work independently and this is a traditional Japanese office completely open created so that management can constantly monitor their employees truth is such business models exist not only in Japan but the Japanese have been using them for several decades
And also took them to their extremes that’s because they have a predisposition for direct control over employees management wants to control even the tiniest of details the worst part is that employees are valued not for their skills like but for their efforts and hour spent on work and so
Many clever workers spend their time trying to look as busy as possible even if they’re not really doing anything many Japanese simply invent useless tasks for themselves to appear to be busy all day there are many jokes about this like how employees copy paper into the computer then transfer them back to
Paper and then back to the computer again in Japan it’s not about efficiency it’s about appearance management loyalty and adherence to strict norms
4 Comments
Office space was a grate movie!
Not true. It’s actually oversimplification of an actual deeper darker issue.
This is exactly and absolutely true. I worked in leading automation company from Japan at European Headquarter and Japanese brought their micromanagement culture even to Europe and the culture was toxic and tense. European where sitting 12 hours in the office illegally just to show their Japanese superior how hard working, they are. Even though they it is strictly forbidden to work beyond 10 hours.
Open plan offices in other words. Apparently for collaboration but basically putting more employees in less space, and also removing any semblance of privacy. Everyone will be worried about others looking at them constantly