Die Insolvenzen von Bauunternehmen in Japan erreichen aufgrund des Arbeitskräftemangels und der Schwierigkeit, Subunternehmer zu finden, neue Höchststände. Einige große Unternehmen wie Sekisui widersetzen sich dem Trend, indem sie Subunternehmer zu regulären Vollzeitkräften machen
https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/3474ad4e8787ff7f16d0e56ab496b89912b23728?page=1
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„bucking the trend by making subcontractors regular full-time employees“
What? Offering employees a stable income was the key to solving the labour shortage. That’s outlandish /s
Got a masters degree in civil engineering and I refuse to work in this industry. Work-life balance is cooked and salaries are really bad. I am not surprised
A huge number of the construction workers in my area are foreigners.
I assume their pay is garbage, despite working hard in all kinds of weather and conditions.
Raising visa fees ~20 fold will definitely help this situation.
There’s been a lot of fuss about this but the truth is this sector of Japan could use a lot of consolidation. Many of these small medium construction companies are barely profitable and inefficient. They are barely kept alive by loans. This is also one of the sources of Japans poor productivity. Many are now going ooof because those Covid loans are coming due.
This kind of creative destruction has been pushed by Japanese economists for quite some time.
This is just the core difference between commodity labor and specialized labor. I deal with contractors often and it’s the old dude micro-contractors who go bankrupt. Anyone can paint a house, but everyone is not house painter. Most folks compare prices over who is doing the work. The old high skilled guys get squeezed and go bankrupt, because they’re small shops run by artisans and not corporate dudes. It’s your house. The competition on work should be relationships and craft, not aggressive financial negotiation. Everything nowadays is prefab “good enough” quality using standardized materials anyway.
Just had our frame raising, the entire crew was Uzbeki with the exception of the Japanese foreman.
They were extremely professional/skilled, polite, and spoke Japanese.
So many Japanese laborers are going to Australia. They make double the wage, save their cash, then return to Japan to set themselves up.
It’s crazy how different it would be if the conditions /benefits were actually decent. The reality is I think many people, even Japanese people, would join this industry if they earned a livable wage, didn’t have terrible work-life balance, didn’t have toxic hierarchical standards, etc.
People don’t mind doing jobs that they aren’t necessarily passionate/interested in. People do mind not being treated like an actual human being and not getting f***ed over. There’s a reason why people who come from worser conditions still try to immediately leave this industry. They would rather take the worser conditions for god sakes.
It’s a self-inflicted wound and hopefully one day, they’ll slowly pull the knife out. Right now, they keep pushing it deeper for some stupid reason…