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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’s young job-hoppers are feeling more secure than they have in years

    20 Oct 2017 14:10 | JHRS (Administrator)

    TOKYO: When Japan’s largest package-delivery company announced that it was raising pay in response to a severe shortage of drivers, Shota Fukuyama answered the call.

    Source: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/ 

  • Airports set up child care facilities to meet demand for workers

    16 Oct 2017 18:34 | JHRS (Administrator)

    TOKYO -- Flight attendants and ground staff who work irregular shifts can now more easily return to work after childbirth as some airports have set up flexible nursery facilities for their children.

    Source: https://japantoday.com/

  • To court workers, Japanese firms try being more gay-friendly

    13 Oct 2017 18:31 | JHRS (Administrator)

    TOKYO — Once a week, the Japanese insurance company where Mr Shinsuke Nakamura works tries to enliven its morning staff meeting by having employees give personal presentations. The topics tend to be mostly innocuous: hobbies, pets or wine recommendations.

    Source: http://www.todayonline.com/

  • Japan workers' wages rise in positive sign for consumer spending

    06 Oct 2017 18:11 | JHRS (Administrator)

    [TOKYO] Wages of Japanese workers rose in August from a year earlier, reversing from the previous month's decline, in a sign of a gradual pick-up in workers' income amid a tightening labour market.

    Source: http://www.businesstimes.com.sg/

  • Japan’s airports plan to open more day care centers on-site to promote employee retention

    06 Oct 2017 18:07 | JHRS (Administrator)

    Airport operators in Japan are looking to open day care centers at their facilities in an effort to keep airline and airport staff from leaving their jobs after having children.

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

  • Ceremonies for new employees held

    03 Oct 2017 18:06 | JHRS (Administrator)

    TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Major businesses on Monday held ceremonies for university students and graduates to whom they have made offers of employment next spring.

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

  • Japanese companies struggle to hire, retain staff as labor shortage worsens

    03 Oct 2017 13:29 | JHRS (Administrator)

    TOKYO (Reuters) - Companies in Japan’s service industries are struggling to hire and retain staff as the labor market becomes the tightest in decades, and are increasingly taking unorthodox steps to alleviate the shortage.

    Source: http://www.reuters.com/

  • Japan's manufacturing employment hits 7-year high

    30 Sep 2017 13:28 | JHRS (Administrator)

    TOKYO -- Japanese manufacturing-sector employment averaged more than 10 million workers from January to August, exceeding that mark for the first time since 2010 as companies bring more production home while exports recover on a mild global economic recovery.

    Source: https://asia.nikkei.com/

  • Japan to open more agriculture jobs to foreign trainees

    22 Sep 2017 13:26 | JHRS (Administrator)

    TOKYO -- Japan will offer workers from overseas on-the-job training in processing agricultural goods, seeking to relieve a labor shortage for employers that increasingly handle aspects of the farming business beyond producing.

    Source: https://asia.nikkei.com/

  • Hokkaido ‘workations’ breathe fresh air into telecommuting

    21 Sep 2017 15:14 | JHRS (Administrator)

    SHARI, HOKKAIDO – With a view of Mount Shari in the distance and an ocean breeze wafting in from the Sea of Okhotsk, working in this coastal community in northeastern Hokkaido is certainly an escape from the hustle and bustle of Tokyo.

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

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