Companies' initiatives for a workstyle reform in Japan 2020
According to a survey conducted in January 2020 regarding the ongoing workstyle reforms in Japanese companies, around 71 percent of surveyed middle managers stated that their company was currently limiting overtime. Another common initiative was the encouragement of paid leave with a respondent share of almost 70 percent. Japan's workstyle reform legislation, which was passed in June 2018, entered its first phase in April 2019. Among other things, it aims to reduce the number of overtime hours.
