Ayako Fujita / Chief Human Resources Officer
Perspectives from a life in leadership.
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The overtime limits that reached construction in April 2024 cannot be met through time-sheet discipline. A contractor's hours are set by the construction period it accepts, so its head of people belongs in the bid review, and its partners' crews belong in the count.
Read the essayThe overtime limits that reached construction in April 2024 cannot be met through time-sheet discipline. A contractor's hours are set by the construction period it accepts, so its head of people belongs in the bid review, and its partners' crews belong in the count.
Japanese contractors reforming seniority pay often abolish the reward for experience along with seniority. The old system's real fault was that it rationed authority by age. In the technical and craft roles where skill accumulates with years, experience should still be paid.
Japanese construction has treated foreign workers as a supply that arrives and leaves on schedule. Now that skilled worker routes allow long stays, a general contractor should design a ten-year career and carry its cost, rather than leave it to the smallest firms in its supply chain.