"Career planning" disguised layoffs

Due to the rejected the company's retirement plan, a called Shusaku Tani 51, SONY factory employees over the past two years have been doing nothing. Every day now, Shusaku Tani's job is to report to the ASTM A234-WPB butt-weld carbon steel cap factory in a small room, he will be sitting on a small chair, browse the web by reading newspaper or read some books of previous engineering to pass the time. Have worked in SONY for 32 years, however, Shusaku Tani will still be hurried for his "work" of the day sorting out a report.

As is known to all, in Japanese firms, for employees "lifetime employment" has always been a natural thing, while the mass layoffs have long been a "forbidden zone" of the Japanese enterprise. However, it seems the ANSI Sch40 butt welding eccentric reducer pipe fittings Japanese electronics giant SONY veteran seemed to want to change the status quo. At the same time, along with Japan's economic recovery is increasingly weak, Shinzo Abe, the prime minister, Shinzo Abe also hopes to further liberalization of layoffs for local enterprises.

To this, SONY said he put some employees in the so-called "Career planning" (Career Design Rooms) there's nothing wrong, because the company will help the employees within the "planning" in the internal or other SONY group companies find another way out. Moreover, SONY also this short radius 90 degree elbow part of the employee to provide a very generous early retirement plan, choose early retirement staff can up to 54 months 'salary. However, the analysis considered the real intention of the move is to let the employees feel "abandonment" and "no personal value", and forced them to feel too boring, and can not stand the humiliation actively choose to leave.

European and us companies, on the other hand, is usually may decline in market demand or product obsolete rapidly expand under the condition of job cuts. But if Japanese companies also follow this approach, the current structure of Japanese society is likely to have major impact, and lead to mass unemployment and income inequality.
SONY's trade union chairman Takaaki Matsuda said: "this should not be the future direction of Japan."

It is worth mentioning that there are reports that the companies such as panasonic, Toshiba and NEC also through follow SONY within companies currently carrying out the practice of "career planning" to promote job cuts.