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In Japan, it is the employees who ask not to retire too early. There is of course the economic factor. But not only…
From our correspondent in Tokyo, Karyn Nishimura
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” HASage of retirement removed, at Nojima we hire up to 80 years. The Japanese chain, which manages many supermarkets of household appliances and electronics in the Tokyo area, is happy to boast about its hiring policy. “We even have an employee who had reached his 80th birthday at the end of 2021 but who wanted to stay. We kept it,” says Masakazu Toyama, a human resources manager at Nojima.
According to him, almost none of the employees of his firm asks to leave at 65, and even less at 60. And in a country where, especially for the elders, work is an essential value, far from triggering outcries and even less strikes, the chain receives the thanks of its employees. “It’s nice to be able to work with…
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