WHY DOES JAPAN WORK SO HARD?

Is «dying for your company» a metaphor in your culture, or a literal risk in someone else’s?

If your company added three extra national holidays tomorrow, do you think productivity would actually fall?

When a robot takes over a human job, does the human lose dignity, or gain freedom?

Japan has a word for death by overwork. Does your industry have a version of that problem it just hasn’t named yet?

Is loyalty to a company a virtue, a trap, or something that depends entirely on where you were born?

For our Watch & Talk sessions, this video sparks discussion around work culture, collective vs individual values, automation and jobs, workplace wellbeing.

Would you rather work in a culture that demands total dedication, or one that legislates your rest?

Watch the video here (but it’s always more interesting to talk about it 😉):