Fujiko Suda: Worklife

How the Boss Reacts When You Announce Departure

Apr 07, 2004 22:14 pm / 2 comments

The work part­ners I have worked closely for the past 5 years threw me a new start party. We had a great time talk­ing, eat­ing, drink­ing at one of my favorite cafes until late into the night.

We talked about how com­pa­nies react when some­one announces his/her wish to leave the com­pany. They work for a major Japan­ese com­pany, and they told me the cul­ture at their com­pany. The boss won’t try too hard to stop some­one if that per­son has already decided to work for some other com­pany or to change career. The atti­tude is, no sense in try­ing if they’ve already decided. But if the person’s motive is unhappy work­place sit­u­a­tion, then the boss will try very hard to con­vince that per­son to stay. I asked, why is that? And they answered, oh, they try to pro­vide guid­ance in life.…. Accord­ing to them, a lot of Japan­ese com­pa­nies still have cul­ture like that, pater­nal­is­tic culture.

I won­der really, what per­cent­age of com­pa­nies in Japan, in West­ern coun­tries still have cul­ture like that. Maybe more com­pa­nies both in Japan and in West­ern coun­tries have cul­tures like that?

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