TOKYO, Japan: Panasonic stated it’s going to provide its Japanese staff a four-day work week, in a bid to enhance productiveness and appeal to higher staff.
The transfer comes after the Japanese authorities made suggestions to personal employers in 2021, which included a shorter working week.
Companies which have sought to place in place a shorter work week have discovered no lack of productiveness, typically, stated officers.
Despite having a repute within the U.S. as a workaholic tradition, Japanese staff truly work fewer hours than American staff, in keeping with the latest knowledge from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
Among the OECD, the U.S. ranked eleventh for many hours labored by the common employee, whereas Japan ranked twenty sixth.
Americans have been promised a shorter work week for generations, and financial specialists within the Nineteen Sixties predicted that robots would carry out nearly all of work and Americans could be working solely 16 hours per week.