According to media reports, due to the increasing shortage of labor in Japan, enterprises have flocked to experienced job seekers, and the number of job-hopping has reached the peak since the financial tsunami. This phenomenon reflects the trend that Japan's rapidly aging demographic transition is encouraging employees to change jobs.
Japan's traditional lifelong employment system is loosening. In the tight labor market, it is no longer taboo for workers to change jobs in order to get better conditions, and it is the employees in the middle of their careers who lead this trend.
The data shows that the number of job-hopping people aged 45 to 65 or above continues to increase, reaching a new high since statistics began in 2002. Japan's job-hopping population reached 3.06 million in 20 16, the seventh consecutive year of growth, the highest level since 2009. However, in the whole labor market, the proportion of job-hoppers is still only 4.8%.
Japanese society is aging rapidly, the birth rate is declining, the working-age population is decreasing, the unemployment rate is at a low point in nearly 20 years, and the job-seeking ratio is at a high point in 43 years. This demographic change gives older employees more opportunities to show off.
Job-hopping agencies said that job seekers over the age of 35 were once considered to have passed the golden age of their careers, but now they are very popular, and many companies are willing to pay high salaries to hire managers and engineers who have been fighting for a long time. According to the statistics of the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, the number of workers who "get a raise" through job-hopping exceeds the number of people whose wages have shrunk. The salary of 65,438+0/4 job-hoppers increased by 65,438+00% or more, while the average basic salary in Japan increased by only 0.4% in April.
Analysts pointed out that the popularity of job-hopping in the middle of career reflects the gradual change of Japanese corporate atmosphere and social attitude towards lifelong employment and seniority promotion system. An employee of an IT startup company said: "Even a big enterprise like Toshiba has no job security. Lifelong employment only belongs to the good old days. "