Mehr als 40 % der Top-Führungskräfte in Japan gaben an, dass die Mitarbeiterzahl ihrer Unternehmen im nächsten Jahrzehnt aufgrund der Auswirkungen der generativen künstlichen Intelligenz zurückgehen wird
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Der einzige Befragte, der einen Anstieg der Mitarbeiterzahl prognostizierte, Makoto Tani, Vorsitzender von Skylark Holdings Co., sagte, dass das Unternehmen die Personalausstattung für Digitalisierungsspezialisten erweitern werde. Er sagte auch, dass der Einsatz von KI die Produktivität steigern und zu neuen Ladeneröffnungen und Geschäftsausweitungen führen werde, was wiederum die Einstellung von mehr Restaurantpersonal zur Folge habe.
Artificial Intelligence Will Reduce Japan’s Workforce in Next 10 Years, Many Top Executives Say
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Agree with Skylark Holdings chairman. Type of jobs will change but AI is a chance to expand. The others probably is only thinking about doing what they are doing now instead of what they’ll be able to do with the new technology.
Given that LLM companies are struggling to stop bleeding billions of dollars every quarter and none of them have a clear path to profitability, I’d hold off on making any big predictions. Also, they love talking out both sides of their mouth. To the execs, it’s all about reducing labor costs, to the general population, it’s all scifi utopian nonsense and assurances that jobs aren’t actually going away, just changing.
Meanwhile, who is this shit even for? It’s a big slop, fraud, CP, and disinformation factory that many people despise, and even the early adopters have struggled to prove actually meaningfully increases productivity.
Japan’s work culture is highly routine, predictable, and repetitive, exactly the kind of structure AI is best at automating. Many jobs already function like algorithms run by humans, with heavy standardization, redundancy, and busy work maintained for cultural reasons rather than efficiency. This makes Japan theoretically vulnerable to rapid AI-driven workforce reduction.
Foreigners will feel it first though. Automation replaces functions, not identities and Japanese employment protects people. Foreign employment protects functions.
It will just happen. People will accept it, and it will be wrapped in a layer of nonsensical cultural ego-boosting instead of any real discussion about why. Why tasks are done simply because they’ve always been done. Why roles exist mainly to buffer responsibility. Why systems are optimized for harmony rather than outcomes.
AI doesn’t just automate work, it asks uncomfortable questions: Why is this step needed? Why does this require five people? Why does it take eight hours? Japan is culturally bad at answering those questions openly.