Employees will work only 4 days a week, the company applied

Tokyo metropolitan Government in Japan (Tokyo Metropolitan Goeronment) has applied 4 days working week for their employees, just 4 days in the week. It is to improve working-life balance and increase the birth rate of Japan. The measures is part of a great initiative to resolve the challenges of working parents and the rapid population of the country. The news was going to allow their employees from April 4, April 2025 in December 2024.

Apart from the small working week, Tokyo administration has introduced a new “Childcare Partial Discoverance.” Under this scheme working parents will allow working parents to reduce their work every day every day. It will provide more flexibility in managing the responsibilities of children’s care.

Tokyo’s Governor Eucake says that the purpose of the move is to help employees who are parents and want to balance the care and work. In addition to preventing women from choosing one of their professional desires and personal responsibilities. According to a report of Japan Times, Coike said in a talk during the regular session of Tokyo Metropolite Assembly, “We will continue to review the flexible work styles to take care of the situation like a child’s birth or child.”

Japan is facing population crisis. At the beginning of 2024, birth rate was reached the lower level. According to the Ministry of Health, Labor and the Welfare, the country was recorded only 350,074 birth rates in the country from January to June, which is 5.7% of the same period of 2023. In 2023, the total breeding rate of Japan was 1.2, and the birth rate in the capital Tokyo was less than 0.99. According to the Fortun’s report, the population requires 2.1 birth rate to maintain economic cooperation and development organization (OPD).

As the ratio of elderly citizens in Japan are increasing, the country is facing increasing problems to maintain their workforce and social infrastructure. The birth rate in the last 8 years, which shows that current policies have received limited success in stopping the demographic decline.