Tokio gibt seinen Mitarbeitern eine 4-Tage-Woche, um die rekordniedrige Geburtenrate anzukurbeln – Japan sieht sich mit einer sinkenden Geburtenrate konfrontiert. Im vergangenen Jahr gab es nur 758.631 Geburten, ein Rekordtief.
https://www.businessinsider.com/tokyo-introducing-four-day-workweek-aims-boost-fertility-babies-japan-2024-12
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From the article
>As Japan grapples with a record-low [fertility rate](https://www.businessinsider.com/world-faces-a-low-fertility-future-hit-global-economy-report-2024-3), Toyko’s government is trying new strategies to try to encourage women to have more children.
>The capital’s government is introducing a [four-day workweek](https://www.businessinsider.com/major-4-day-work-week-trial-had-practically-no-drawbacks-2024-7#:~:text=%22When%20workers%20are%20better%20rested,loss%20of%20pay%2C%20told%20BI.) starting in April next year, in effect offering state employees a three-day weekend.
curious to see how that gets abused. Probably by cramming all the time lost into those remaining 4 days.
A 4-day workweek might ease stress,but maybe affordable childcare and better parental leave policies should be next on the agenda and also the housing costs are huge barriers to starting families.
I think it’s a great start to actually show that there are ways you can enjoy your family. It breaks my heart when to working parents send their kid to daycare and you see your child awake for literally like 2 hours a day. That’s disgusting.
Luckily kids these days needs to cared for on weekends only.
Might help very slightly.
But there’s a whole bunch of other things in their culture that also need changing.
eg. ‚Right to return to work‘ would be a good one. I hear that women are often expected to quit instead of returning to work after 3-6 months maternity leave.
Only issue is that the 4 hour work week will just be working more hours on those 4 days and in Japan your bosses are always hounding you to do them favors over the weekend…
When I was young I wanted to move.to Japan until I saw through their progressive facade to the forced topic work culture underneath.