{"id":11492,"date":"2021-06-23T14:17:02","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T18:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=11492"},"modified":"2021-06-23T14:17:40","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T18:17:40","slug":"japan-proposes-four-day-working-week-to-improve-work-life-balance-asia-an-in-depth-look-at-news-from-across-the-continent-dw-22-06-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=11492","title":{"rendered":"Japan proposes four-day working week to improve work-life balance | Asia| An in-depth look at news from across the continent | DW | 22.06.2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Japanese government has just unveiled its annual economic policy guidelines, which include new recommendations that companies permit their staff to opt to work four days a week instead of the typical five.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/japan-work-life-balance\/a-57989053\">Japan proposes four-day working week to improve work-life balance | Asia| An in-depth look at news from across the continent | DW | 22.06.2021<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Can&#8217;t tell if same work hours in 4 days, or an actual reduction in work hours.\u00a0 Complicated because of the &#8220;service overtime&#8221; habit in Japan, basically unpaid and expected overtime.<\/p>\n<p>Also:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fujitsu has seized the opportunity, Schulz pointed out, with the company cutting the office space at its Tokyo headquarters by fully 50% as it shifts further to remote working.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Japanese government has just unveiled its annual economic policy guidelines, which&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[625,18,42,140],"class_list":["post-11492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-covid-19-over","tag-economics","tag-japan","tag-paul","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}