Previous time, I wrote some problems about some of Japanease companies. Those are below.
- Recalcitrant chief who denounce his subordinates with INCORRECT grounds.
- STRANGE security policy which is clearly incompatible with theory of security.
- INEFFICIENT system, but if you plead improving system then you are denounced.
- POOR surroundings in which you cannot concentrate.
Do you know most of working office are poor? You might say "No, it is nomal. In noisy." Wait. Is it really nomal that surroundings are noisy? In which telephone bell ring ding-dong, frequently you are summoned by chief, someone talk loudly so that nobody concecntrate on their work. If it was, screamingly funny. I think nomal office is that most of all concentrate on their work. In other word, there are quiet, and wide room enought to do work.
Recently almost office is Open Office. Open office include a number of units in a large room which is not separated. Because a number of units mixed, ther are so noisy. Anytime somewhere telephone call ring ding-dong, in other area someone ( maybe you ) summoned their chief, the room echoed with laughter, or someone run helter-skelter behind your back. Moreover, as viewing from height, manager can observe followers detail, followers cannot debate. Even worse, some offices are filled with smoke of tabacco! So they, working at open office, always complained because their work was being interrupted.
Although there are so many complaints, why did open office spread? The answer is that management becomes easy. It is easy that manager can keep careful watch on their followers. When followers stop to typing ( but thinking about their own problems ) and manager looks up it immediately, manager call them to account. Manager say "Don't think about how to do well, or what would pick up. If you have such time, you only have to get into work!" So manager believe strongly that management is urgeing people to do work. Therefore manager denounce their followers with incorrect grounds. As a result, people lose motivation for working.
There are other problem. It is telephone. At our office, anytime somewhere telephone is ringing. It is no day when telephone didn't ring during 30 minuts. All telephones ring for calling out only one person. And then all people stoped working. Imagin that you were geting into your tasks then telephon rang frequently. Who feel like answering the phone? Who feel like happy? You know without saying that no-one is there. But manager say "Immediately pick up the phone! When telephone is ringing, you must answer it before tree time ringing!" Although the telephonecall is not for me, not for our unit, I must answer it. How foolish it is! You know that always your work was being interrupted. As a result, people lose more motivation for working.
Recently needs of telephone are not so strong. If the advantage is compared with the disadvantage, the disadvantage might be larger. You know when you make a phone call, you cannot define the party and one's status. But now, instant messengers ( IM ) are there. Before sending message using IM, you can define party and check status. Only one parson is interrupted, but another are not interrupted. Not wrote here, but some advantages are there. Why don't use such as usefull tools? Tradition? Habit? Corrupt of them should be improved, aren't you?
Such as poor environment, it is natural that followers can't get into work.
It would not surprise them if people say below. Instead manager should prise them.
"I cannot do my own task at office. May I work at home?"
"I cannot do anything during daytime, but can do around midnight."
At last, I think office should not be prison, office should be where people would like to work at their own initiative. Also manager should not be prisonofficer, not lie sprawled out in a chair. Manager should provide a place where people are able to concentrate, and remove what interrupt people's work. Constructing such offices is the task of manager. And this is management. When office become "bright", productivity will grow.
If do not so then productivity will down, also hacker will leave your office.
読み取れることは、経済の不安要素が広まっているときに増税すると不況になるということだ。経済不安が高まると、国民は明日には解雇され収入がなくなるかもしれないという意識を持つようになる。そして、解雇されてしまったときのために少しでも貯蓄をしておこうと家計は財布の紐を硬く締めるのだ。このときに増税を行うと、家計は出費を抑えるために一段と財布の紐を硬くする。こうなると消費は大幅に低下する。消費が大幅に低下すると企業にダメージがいく。売り上げが低下したなかで従業員には給与を出さねばならないからだ。利益が少しでもあるならばしぶしぶでも給与を出しているかもしれないが（つまり雇用は維持されている）、利潤を得る見込みが厳しくなるとリストラが行われる。リストラが行われると、他の従業員は「次は自分かもしれない」と考えてさらに財布の紐が硬くなる。リストラされてしまった労働者は当然消費活動は最低限になる。輪をかけて低下した消費は更なる追い討ちを企業に与え、企業はさらに苦しくなるのでまたリストラを実施する。と、悪循環が繰り返されることになる ( 左図 )。この悪循環はなかなか脱出できないために「出口の見えない不況」といわれるのだろう。