In the early months of 2020, as it became clear to the world that the Covid-19 pandemic would require an immediate and radical response, corporate Japan contemplated a near overnight move to remote working. The prospects did not seem good; the results have been revealing.
Over decades, the Japanese workplace had established many practices and habits which together helped create a reputation for inflexibility, resistance to change, and an institutional dismissiveness over the wellbeing of staff.
Structural pressure to overwork, presenteeism, the persistence of certain archaic technologies, and a downplaying of mental health issues and abuse are just some of the most-cited factors in analyses of Japanese workplace pathology.
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