(Quoted from Japan Times on November 5, 2019) In a rare corporate experiment to test a four-day work system, Microsoft Corp.’s Japan branch found that their productivity improved by about 40 percent, the company said. The test involved 2,300 regular office workers in August. Amid calls for improving efficiency in the workplace in a […]
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Women in Technology Japan (WITJ）and Waseda AI Lab are proud to invite David Ha to talk about Machine Learning and Creativity. David is currently a Research Scientist at Google Brain and also an author of many publications on Machine Learning. Since this event is co-hosted by Waseda AI Lab, attendees may be mostly students, but […]
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Nitori was voted as the most popular company to do an internship by students, reported by Rakuten Minshu, a career information exchange service site for college students in Japan. While the top two airlines, ANA and JAL were ranked no.2 and 3, Nitori was liked by most students because it provides internship programs to cover […]
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Parenting in Japan is changing. Many dads are carrying babies or taking kids to schools these days, which were seen only rarely 20 years ago. These dads are called “Ikumen” in Japanese, meaning parenting dads. They were treated specially in a way by being called by this specific term because taking care of children is […]
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Annie Chang attended the Mobile World Congress 2019 in Shanghai last week as a judge for the Women4Tech Asian Industry Leadership Award. She nominated Xinmei Cai, a senior advisor of Women in Technology Japan since it was founded. Xinmei has been with Google for 16 years and contributed largely to the Google Map’s successful launch […]
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Nikkei Newspaper on June 17, 2019 Japanese universities including Tohoku University have been challenging to increase female faculties and now the challenge is starting to bearing fruit. They set up large day-care centers within the campus, and try to hire women only to encourage women to stay in their study or their schools. More women […]
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Is it true that more Japanese young people are becoming serious about giving back to society?
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Microsoft Japan is going to start a new project this summer called “Work Life Choice” which encourages employees to take 3 days off a week for better work efficiency. https://news.microsoft.com/ja-jp/2019/04/22/20190422-ms-worklifechoice2019/
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Keidanren and universities agreed to change the rules on hiring new grads. Many Japanese companies start to “book” good students to hire as early as June and they are trying to move it even earlier. This is causing problems because students are too preoccupied with securing their jobs to focus on studying. Keidanren decided to […]
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Interesting article from Nikkei. More people who are over 50 years old are changing jobs than before. The number doubled in the last three years. It used to be believed that the age limit for changing jobs was 35, but it is obviously not true now due to the serious shortage in the workforce. These skilled people […]
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