> In any case 40% of Japanese workers are part-time -
It's actually 45% of Japanese women workers. The percentage of men being part time is much lower around 12%. A big reason why your friend struggles finding anything else is that she's a woman and that Japan is an intensely sexist society.
A Japanese worker living in Italy and writing about life there can be only an exception in any sense.
Re:At Xamarin I left every day at 5pm
by InCityDreams on Sunday November 06, 2022 @06:30AM
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On the whole, italian part-time hours are fixed. Like fixed. This is to allow people to go to a second, or third, job on time. You can request they change ie come in early, stay later but no is backed up by law. Elastic clauses (contracts) exist, but the employer oays a hefty premium, and even then can only request a certain number/ percentage of hours are 'extra'.
All this is for legal employment,as opposed to cash-in-hand jobs.
https://youtu.be/JQNyzbMTEQY
Apparently overtime is... included in advance taking the average for the company, so people feel obliged to do it since technically they already got paid.
It's basically like that team-building exercise with a dozen people trying to move a broomstick down when each person is holding it with one finger. The default reaction is to send it flying.
In any case 40% of Japanese workers are part-time - I've met one - she lived in Italy and her line of work was writing articles about life there and she couldn't pick up more hours even if she wanted to. She said it was increasingly common for people to be employed like that.