TOKYO, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) — Around 65 p.c of corporations in Japan rent international staff to fill labor shortages, Kyodo News reported, citing a current authorities survey.
In the multiple-response survey, 56.8 p.c of corporations stated international staff have been employed with the expectation that they are going to carry out as nicely or higher than Japanese employees, whereas 18.5 p.c pointed to efforts to advertise variety, in line with the labor ministry survey launched earlier this week.
The survey of corporations with international staff which have 5 or extra staff, performed in October and November 2023, obtained responses from 3,534 companies and 11,629 staff, the report stated.
The survey additionally discovered that 51.5 p.c of international staff in Japan have been launched to their jobs by businesses or people of their house international locations, whereas 13.5 p.c secured employment by way of businesses or people in Japan.
“We’d like to continue conducting the survey and use it as a basic document for policymaking,” a ministry official stated.
The survey was the primary performed by the ministry on employment and recruitment of international staff, with the quantity persevering with to extend amid Japan’s declining inhabitants and plummeting birthrate.
The variety of international staff in Japan greater than quadrupled up to now 15 years to 2.05 million, or about 3 p.c of the whole workforce, as of October final 12 months.