JAPANESE MANAGERS EXPERIENCE "EXTREME" STRESS AS FOREIGN WORKERS FLOOD IN

The Japanese are good at hiding things, but just like in other low-fertility countries, immigration is soaring, as companies desperately try to keep Labour costs down in the run-up to the 2020 Olympics. 

But this increasing reliance on imported labour is now placing enormous psychological strains on Japan's already highly-stressed middle management.

According to Japan Today over 30% of Japanese managers feel intense stress from working with foreigners while 17.2% said they would even like to quit their jobs as a consequence. Yes, that bad!

In a survey of Japanese managers with foreign subordinates, 34.3 percent of the 872 respondents reported that they feel intense stress because of the challenges the situation presents. Moreover, 17.2 percent of the managers of foreign workers said that if they could, they would like to quit their jobs immediately.::When asked just what sort of difficulties they were grappling with (and allowed multiple answers), the managers had a long list of problems, with the top five being:

• Foreign workers are very self-assertive (46.1 percent)
• They don’t understand things that are considered common sense to Japanese people (41.6 percent)
• They make aggressive demands for salary raises (40.7 percent)
• They have a low level of loyalty towards the company/organization (40.1 percent)
• It takes a long time to teach them how to do their jobs (40 percent)

In addition when asked about the skill level of their foreign subordinates, 30 percent of managers said they were insufficiently skilled, and only 39,6 percent found their skills to be satisfactory.

Yup, Japan, we warned you about the dangers of multiculturalism but you wouldn't listen. Enjoy finding out the hard way.  Hope the seppuku can be kept within reasonable limits.

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