Japan's government plans to encourage 4-day workweek, but experts split

Re:Japan's government plans to encourage 4-day workweek, but... by ratww on Monday June 21, 2021 @07:18AM (#27578112)

> It's amazing because they do finish a lot faster than in western countries, but you can definitely remove 20% of the people in street-level construction and would see little difference.

Maybe the 20% extra people is the reason they always finish a lot faster.

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Re:Japan's government plans to encourage 4-day workweek, but... by toyg on Monday June 21, 2021 @08:43AM (#27578579)

Or the reason everything in Japan is so clean and actually efficient and reliable. You won't see the casual litter and degraded infrastructure that is commonplace in US and Western Europe - everything is kept in tip-top shape, because why not? When you have the wealth and workforce to spare, in practical terms it's just better to allocate capacity for this sort of tasks in quantities that might look sub-optimal on a spreadsheet.

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Re:Japan's government plans to encourage 4-day workweek, but... by ratww on Monday June 21, 2021 @10:12AM (#27579358)

Yep, exactly. I completely agree with you.

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Re:Japan's government plans to encourage 4-day workweek, but... by franciscop on Monday June 21, 2021 @11:40AM (#27580235)

So there's normally 2x-3x people working in construction compared to western countries. I'm saying 20% of those workhours are not needed, but that'd still leave quite a lot more workers there compared to western countries and why they finish early. An example is that they normally work around the clock (24/7, but fairly quietly at night).

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