Amid hiring season in Japan, a new crop of employees seems to be ditching the long standard of career ambitions: You get a job and you grow with the company until you retire. Ulrike Schaede, professor of Japanese business at the University of California, San Diego, tells host Marco Werman that the pandemic acted like a “steroid,” accelerating a shift in what employees want out of a job. More and more, it’s work-life balance and more control over their career trajectories.
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