Shoji Onishi Loyalty to Self versus Company

YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sycENPAeWAU

Japanese

ええ、今の日本では転職するということに関しましては、そう驚きではなくなってはおります。ですけれども、日本の会社というのはおもしろい制度で、退職金の制度とそれから年功序列という二つのおもしろい仕組みがあります。で、その二つの仕組みに縛られて、会社をなかなか変われないというのが今までの日本でした。人々が一つの会社に長くいればいるほどたくさんの退職金をもらえるとか、長くいればいるほど自然に昇級していくという仕組みが今までの日本にありましたが、最近は社会もいろいろ変化しておりますので、そういう、そういったことがいろいろ会社の中でも変化しつつあります。そこで例えば、退職金制度であれば、４０１Kというものをアメリカから導入しておりまして、退職金のポータビリティを持たせるなどして、会社に社員が縛られないような仕組みが日本の中でもできつつあります。これで社員は、自分で見つけたよりよい仕事に対して、自分を、会社を変われるというような制度作りも、日本の中では今行われております。現に私のプロジェクトの中にも、会社を辞めてこのプロジェクトのために会社を変わられたというかたもたくさんおられます。ですから、今の日本ではそう珍しいことではないと思います。

English

Yes, nowadays in Japan, regarding the changing of jobs, it is not such a surprising thing anymore. However, in Japanese companies there are interesting systems, two interesting structures that are called The Retirement Fund System and The Seniority System. And, up to now, it was almost impossible to change jobs in Japan because employees were bound by these two systems. In Japan, until recently there had been structures where the longer the people stayed at one company, the more retirement fund they would receive, where the longer the people stayed, the higher they would be automatically promoted, and so on. Yet, because the society has been changing in many ways lately, such things are also changing in the companies. So, for example, if it is a retirement fund, the 401K was introduced from the U.S., and by giving the retirement fund portability, a new structure is in the process of being established where employees are not bound by their company. By this, the employee himself, well, as to a job that he has found himself, there is a new system being created where he can change his job in Japan. In fact, among the people working on my project, there are many who quit their old jobs and changed their jobs for this project. So, it is not so unusual in Japan presently.

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