Japan: Generation Z is Willing to Pay to be Fired

The start of a new fiscal year in Japan is traditionally considered the start of working life for hundreds of thousands of university and college graduates, who make up the bulk of the “new recruits” entering the Japanese labor market. The difficulty, however, is that Generation Z (according to the Strauss-Howe generational theory – young people born 1997– 2012) is not ready to join the army of the Japanese workforce. Young Japanese often do not pay serious attention to their lifestyle changes and the nature of their future work when making career decisions, leading to an increase in the number of newly minted workers who are ready to change jobs as quickly as possible. Experts attribute this trend to a generational change, which has primarily affected the attitudes of young Japanese toward work and it also caused by the COVID-19 pandemic the lifestyle changes, when remote work has prompted many people to reconsider their work-life balance.

Japan, university graduates, recruitment, resignation agencies, Z generation