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The Mainichi
24-07-2025
- Business
- The Mainichi
News in Easy English: More new workers in Japan want promotion by age, not by results
TOKYO -- A new survey shows that many young people starting jobs in Japan in 2025 want to be promoted by seniority (age and years at the company), not by performance (how well they do their job). This is the first time since 2006 that more people chose seniority over performance. The survey was done by Sanno University. The university said that more new workers want to keep working and get experience in a stable place more than competing with each other. In the survey, 56.3% of people said they want promotion by seniority. Only 43.6% said they want promotion by merit (job performance). In the past, most people wanted promotion by merit, but now this has changed. Also, 69.4% of new workers said they want a job for life. About 89% said they want to stay at the same company for a long time. Even though changing jobs is common now, many young people want to work at one company for many years. When choosing a job, more people now care about things like good pay and benefits, not just the type of work. The survey showed that "benefit package" and "salary level" are more important to new workers than before. (Japanese original by Yuko Shimada, Business News Department) Vocabulary promotion: moving to a higher position at work seniority: being at a company for a long time or being older performance: how well you do your job merit: being good at your job benefit package: extra things a company gives workers, like health care or paid holidays salary: the money you get for your work
The Mainichi
20-07-2025
- Business
- The Mainichi
Majority of new hires in Japan prefer promotion by seniority over merit for 1st time: poll
TOKYO -- A Japanese university survey on new hires in fiscal 2025 has revealed a preference for promotion by seniority over a performance-based system for the first time since the survey's current methodology was introduced in fiscal 2006. The survey was conducted by Sanno University's Institute of Management. A representative noted, "Rather than competing, there is a growing desire among new employees to keep working while steadily gaining experience in a stable environment." When asked whether they preferred "meritocracy" or "seniority," a total of 43.6% of respondents opted for meritocracy, while 56.3% chose seniority, surpassing the halfway mark for the first time. Meritocracy had constantly overtaken seniority as a preference since fiscal 2006, when support for an achievement-based system stood at 65.3%, but this trend has now been reversed. Additionally, 69.4% of respondents expressed a desire for lifetime employment, and a total of 89.2% stated they wanted to work at the same company for a long time. Despite it being an era where job-hopping among young people is not uncommon, this survey revealed an unexpected situation where Japanese-style employment is increasingly preferred among new employees. Previously, job selection was heavily influenced by what respondents wanted to do, including the content of the positions, but "there may be an increasing trend of people choosing jobs more rationally as a means to enhance their private lives," according to the representative. In fact, the survey's "important factors when choosing an employer," with multiple answers allowed, also reflected this rational inclination: "job content" (24.1%) and "job type" (9.5%) have been on the decline, while aspects related to treatment, such as the "benefit package" (56.4%) and "salary level" (42.8%), have been increasing.
