Re: work times & accommodation @tokyo, WAS: Re: [tlug] Embedded linux dev wanting to find work in Tokyo.. Seeking advice.

[Joe Larabell <fred62@example.com>]

> ... I don't know what the situation is 
> in most Japanese companies, does anyone have concrete data?

I offered my empirical data already and got shot down (something having to 
do with "Americans" not being typical of the Japanese workforce or that 
many take their work home or some such rot -- save that I'm actually the 
only American working for the local office of my current company and, 
being a sales and support office, it's kinda hard to take work home; the 
exception being the local company President who seems to work longer hours 
than most of the Japanese employees).

I doubt anyone on the list has worked for *most* Japanese companies so the 
best you can do is settle for anecdotal data. In my former company (back 
when I actually used to go to the office every day) I could walk through 
the floor at 8am or 8pm and see less than 20% of the staff at their desks. 
Whether working for a Western company corrupts the employees, whether said 
corrupted employees are drawn to a Western company, whether the industry 
I'm in is such that overtime is not expected, or whether the stories are 
simply overblown -- I have no idea, really. But it's not my experience 
that *everyone* hereworks ridiculous hours. However, there are always the 
show-offs...

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