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Termination without cause in Japan is complex and workers have a lot of rights and protections we don't in the US. If Japan had employment laws as weak as ours, Nintendo would undoubtedly lay off workers just the same. It's not management's benevolence or farsightedness, it's labor law.

Max Nichols@maxnichols.bsky.social

You know what Nintendo does when they have a surplus set of devs from cancellations or production ending? Put them on other projects. The ability to redeploy headcount while keeping teams together over time is like, the main strategic benefit of scale in the game industry

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Zonino

@zonino.bsky.social

26 June

How does that apply to their non-Japanese branches?

Koren Lesthe 🐾🐊 Terranigma FTW

@koren-lesthe.eurosky.social

26 June

Didn't Iwata massively cut his pay instead of firing people during the Wii U era ? Can't any American garbage CEO do the same or it's considered a hate crime in the USA or something ?

Alexander King

@literallyaking.com

26 June

A perfect example of an executive (even a pretty exceptional one like Iwata) acting according to standard Japanese business practices, being interpreted as unusually benevolent. In any country, CEOs only take pay cuts when compelled to. So that's a better goal than wishing for better CEOs.

Don Sheldon 🌱

@donsheldon.bsky.social

26 June

Almost like labor laws, in the long term, don't just help workers... interesting.

Antifascist Militant

@antifasictmilatant.bsky.social

26 June

At will employment is a choice we don't have to live like this

Virtualsonic

@virtualsonic.bsky.social

26 June

Yes, and that's without forgetting the fact that Japanese work culture tends to reward job stability over temporary employee turnover, making it common for people to work at the same company for 30, 40, or even 50 years, which makes firing even more expensive considering the costly compensation