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curl-6 on 25 July 2025
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pokoko said:

It's one thing to point out the problems with business culture in the west but promoting business culture in Japan as a wonderful alternative is ridiculous. Employees might have more stability but they pay a very steep price for it. Unpaid overtime, stagnant wages, power harassment, punishment for speaking out, and insane hours are just some aspects of it.

A big part of that stability in Japan is that individual employees are expected to do MORE WORK for less money, meaning that they don't hire new employees, they just pile more tasks on the ones they already have until they're working 16 hours a day just to finish. It's also somewhat common to threaten employees who try to quit with legal action or just the "you'll never work in this industry again" warning.

Criticize the corporate environment in the west, sure, but doing it by romanticizing the corporate environment in Japan is crazy.

I didn't see anyone romanticising Japan's corporate culture per se, and from what I've read conditions are Nintendo are considered quite good.

People more seemed to be criticising the way a lot of Western companies seem to lay off their employees in droves every time a quarter doesn't break records. (Or even when they do make record profits)

There's something to be said for cultivating talent and hanging onto them, and it shows in Nintendo's continued success.