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This news service contains Japan-related HR news that matter in a nutshell. Guaranteed less than 50 words linked back to its original news source. Great for busy HR pros like you!

  • Japan pandemic jobless data masks woe of millions, experts say

    03 Jul 2020 19:40 | JHRS (Administrator)

    Unlike most major global powers, Japan has been spared an explosion in unemployment during the coronavirus pandemic, despite the world’s third-biggest economy suffering its first recession in more than five years.

    Source: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/

  • Japan's airport quarantine workers to get special allowance for high-risk work

    03 Jul 2020 19:39 | JHRS (Administrator)

    The National Personnel Authority plans to pay a special allowance of up to ¥4,000 per day to government employees who were involved in quarantine work at two airports earlier this year in response to the coronavirus outbreak, it was learned Thursday.

    Source: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/

  • Japan's single mothers and female workers hard hit by coronavirus

    03 Jul 2020 19:22 | JHRS (Administrator)

    Based on a labor market survey by the Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry in April, the employed population of women dropped by 530,000 from the same month the previous year to 29.3 million — the first such downward shift in over eight years.

    Source: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/

  • Tokyo abandons numerical targets to fight coronavirus

    30 Jun 2020 19:34 | JHRS (Administrator)

    Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike on Tuesday unveiled a new coronavirus warning system that is based more on the advice of medical professionals instead of relying heavily on specific numerical targets, as the capital grapples with a recent uptick in the number of new cases after business and social restrictions were eased about a month ago.

    Source: https://english.kyodonews.net/

  • Pandemic spurs some in Japan to reassess employment options

    27 Jun 2020 19:31 | JHRS (Administrator)

    As an article published in Gendai Business explains, some employees have discovered that absence from the office hasn’t exactly made the heart grow fonder in terms of their employers. The two-plus months of working from home now appear to be amplifying existing issues in the workplace, many of which had likely been festering before the pandemic struck.

    Source: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/

  • Japanese firms testing AI tech to recruit talent

    25 Jun 2020 20:49 | JHRS (Administrator)

    Many Japanese companies have already shifted to online interviews and seminars for recruiting new employees due to the coronavirus pandemic, but some have gone a step further by testing artificial intelligence to efficiently hire talent.

    Source: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/

  • Japanese investors favoring firms that let people work from home

    25 Jun 2020 20:46 | JHRS (Administrator)

    Some fund managers are increasingly basing investment decisions in part on how considerate companies are to their employees and clients during the coronavirus pandemic.

    Source: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/

  • 35% of Japan workers, 55% of Tokyoites have teleworked during coronavirus crisis: poll

    22 Jun 2020 20:43 | JHRS (Administrator)

    TOKYO -- A Cabinet Office survey on changes in the public's views and behavior due to the spread of the novel coronavirus has found 34.6% of respondents with jobs and 55.5% of workers in Tokyo's special wards have experienced teleworking. 

    Source: https://mainichi.jp/

  • Majority of Japan firms cutting jobs and pay to survive pandemic

    18 Jun 2020 19:59 | JHRS (Administrator)

    A majority of firms said they have taken steps — from layoffs to pay cuts — to cope with the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic on the world’s third-largest economy, according to a monthly poll.

    Source: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/

  • Foreign Residents Support Center to open in Tokyo to assist with various issues

    18 Jun 2020 19:56 | JHRS (Administrator)

    TOKYO -- The Immigration Services Agency of Japan will launch a centralized hub to support foreign residents, companies that hire foreign residents, and local governments in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward on July 6, the agency announced June 12. 

    Source: https://mainichi.jp/

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