Japan labor market set for change as huge worker shortage looms – The Mainichi

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1. “Acute driver shortage”

   “We’ll pay you more and you’ll only work 8 hours.”

   Acute driver surplus!

   We work our teachers with 100 hours of overtime a month. Death work. Wanna become a teacher? Let’s do it!

2. I’ve been at city hall for the last hour. 25% of the staff are doing jobs that have been automated in the west for a decade or two. I’m willing to bet that the same is true for the majority of offices in the country.

   So, yeah. As they’ve been saying, automation will fix the problem.