Comment on Japan’s Birth Rate Set to Break Even the Bleakest Forecasts
Kefla@hexbear.net 1 week ago40 hours a week is 160 hours in a month, which the male average seems to dip below regularly and the female average is always below. That doesn’t seem worse than my situation in the US.
Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 1 week ago
1) This is the official working time, which does not include the obligatory overtime where bosses require their employees to accompany them going drinking and stuff
2) They want japanese babies, and no immigrants - so their working time MUST get below other western countries or it will never happen.
lefthandeddude@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
I completely agree. This is all about people not enjoying life because they work too much. Regulate the problem as an externality and this problem would go away. But government leaders in Japan would never have the guts to radically regulate the problem, such as requiring double the pay for overtime after 28 hours of work in a week.