日本では無理でしょう / This'd Never Work In Japan

English below...

まぐれで、今朝、del.icio.usで「Open Loops」と言う面白いブログを見つけた。

恐らく、夜遅くまで残業をすることより午前中集中的に働くことの方が効果的だそうです。

アメリカ人の僕にとってこれは当然だ。何回も「何で日本人はそんな残業をするか？」と思った。日本では「無駄は駄目！」をよく聞きますが仕事ができたら、課長や部長や社長が帰るまで働かなきゃは無駄じゃない？

やっぱり日本とアメリカのビジネス文化は全然違うから日本ではこれはあり得ないでしょう？


Just by dumb luck this morning, I ran across an interesting blog called Open Loops via del.icio.us.

According to the guy who writes it, supposedly focusing all your energy on getting tasks done during the morning is a lot more effective than putting in overtime till all hours of the night.

Now, to me as an American, this seems only logical. I don't know how many times I've wondered, "Why the hell do so many Japanese put in so much overtime?" There's always so much emphasis in Japan about 'cutting out waste' but if you've finished your work, yet can't go home until the boss leaves isn't that a form of "waste"?

I guess that business culture in Japan & the US are just two entirely different animals and that this line of thought would never work here, right?