Translated from 日本語 • View original The Japanese way of working is inefficient!
The other day, there was an article in JB Press like this.
"Negative overtime pay" for employees who work overtime lazily / Japanese companies are the ones who get ahead in the industry as the less efficient the employees are.
http://jbpress.ismedia.jp/articles/-/46523
Lately, I've been trying to talk to people around me whenever I have the opportunity, but it's often wrong to work overtime and try to get results.
We at ISAO are in the business of Internet services, so it is undeniable that we are destined to be required to stick to it for a long time and produce results when we are in trouble.
However, there is something wrong with "always working long hours and producing results".
Is the way you work wrong, or is you not good enough for the work you are entrusted with in the first place?
Something is wrong.
Labor issues are large, and this has been taken up socially recently, but I feel that there are many problems in many cases from the perspective of "are you really doing a productive job?"
Return on time!
In Japan during the period of high economic growth, it was standard for fathers to work without regard for the house, and mothers to completely cover the housework.
However, in modern times, dual employment is commonplace, and more and more people have to work not only childcare but also nursing care with work.
The way we work today must also be adapted to the current era.
I wrote an article on Qiita that an ISAO engineer would go home on time with a strong will, and in it, he said, "The time to really concentrate and enter the zone is about 3~4 hours a day."
I thought they were just shouting.
Evaluate Achievements
As mentioned in the JB Press article at the beginning,
People who produce results in a short period of time < People who work overtime and have poor results
I think that if the company makes this evaluation, it will result in giving the wrong message in the future.
Of course, emotionally, there is a part of me saying, "He's doing his best...", but at ISAO, we never evaluate people who have poor results.
New Organizational Shape
We are taking on the challenge of a new form of organization called Bali Flat, and we also want to break the bad traditions of the old Japanese way of thinking about achievements and evaluations.
So, how do you spend 7 to 8 hours a day, which is a regular time?
I would like to write about this another time.