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of the area. That little sensor standing in a rice field could be a key device in protecting the global environment.
6.4 Good Health and Self-Reliance for a Fulfilling Life
6.4.1 The Wisdom of Seniors Is a Social Resource
We should aim for a society where people can enjoy a better Quality of Life (QOL)
while maintaining quantitative richness as well. To that end, remaining active for
one’s entire life is vital.
Most companies have a retirement age of 60 or 65 years of age but the sixties age
bracket nowadays is different from the old days. Most people in their sixties are
active seniors who enjoy good health while their brains still function well and they
are still keen to continue working.
Mayekawa Manufacturing Co., Ltd., a company well-known for its industrial
freezing technology, has an unorthodox employment system with its zero retirement
policy implemented since 1976. If the employee so desires and if there is a need in
the workplace, employment contracts can be renewed annually past the age of sixty
enabling the employee to continue working. Work is still full time and social security is still applicable but wages are reduced by about 40% and the workplace also
changes.
These employees, who have opted to stay on past 60, are expected to pass on
knowledge and techniques they have acquired to younger employees. Younger
employees are kept busy everyday with their work duties but when an older
employee with experience and leeway joins them, some kind of chemical reaction
is said to occur and products that are top class globally can be created through cooperative work between the younger and older generations. Furthermore, when a
younger employee hits some kind of wall, they can often make a breakthrough from
the intuition that only a veteran employee possesses, or, the veteran employee can
offer the younger employee appropriate advice. As of August 2016, the ratio of
people in the company’s employ in Japan who are aged 60 or over reached more
than 10%. The oldest employee is 84 years old while there has been a case where a
certain technical advisor reached the age of 94.
Because Mayekawa Manufacturing Co., Ltd., realizes the significance of retaining employees aged 60 and over, the company operates its continued employment
system. For seniors too, continued employment where they can make use of their
experience is worth working for.
The British economist, John Maynard Keynes, wrote an essay in 1930 titled
Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren in which he proposed that the economic problem may be solved within 100 years, or in other words, in 2030, and
people would be freed from having to work. Even so, Keynes recommended that we
work three-hour shifts per day. At the time of writing the essay, it seems that a sort
nervous breakdown was common in England and the United States amongst the
6.4 Good Health and Self-Reliance for a Fulfilling Life
of the area. That little sensor standing in a rice field could be a key device in protecting the global environment.
6.4 Good Health and Self-Reliance for a Fulfilling Life
6.4.1 The Wisdom of Seniors Is a Social Resource
We should aim for a society where people can enjoy a better Quality of Life (QOL)
while maintaining quantitative richness as well. To that end, remaining active for
one’s entire life is vital.
Most companies have a retirement age of 60 or 65 years of age but the sixties age
bracket nowadays is different from the old days. Most people in their sixties are
active seniors who enjoy good health while their brains still function well and they
are still keen to continue working.
Mayekawa Manufacturing Co., Ltd., a company well-known for its industrial
freezing technology, has an unorthodox employment system with its zero retirement
policy implemented since 1976. If the employee so desires and if there is a need in
the workplace, employment contracts can be renewed annually past the age of sixty
enabling the employee to continue working. Work is still full time and social security is still applicable but wages are reduced by about 40% and the workplace also
changes.
These employees, who have opted to stay on past 60, are expected to pass on
knowledge and techniques they have acquired to younger employees. Younger
employees are kept busy everyday with their work duties but when an older
employee with experience and leeway joins them, some kind of chemical reaction
is said to occur and products that are top class globally can be created through cooperative work between the younger and older generations. Furthermore, when a
younger employee hits some kind of wall, they can often make a breakthrough from
the intuition that only a veteran employee possesses, or, the veteran employee can
offer the younger employee appropriate advice. As of August 2016, the ratio of
people in the company’s employ in Japan who are aged 60 or over reached more
than 10%. The oldest employee is 84 years old while there has been a case where a
certain technical advisor reached the age of 94.
Because Mayekawa Manufacturing Co., Ltd., realizes the significance of retaining employees aged 60 and over, the company operates its continued employment
system. For seniors too, continued employment where they can make use of their
experience is worth working for.
The British economist, John Maynard Keynes, wrote an essay in 1930 titled
Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren in which he proposed that the economic problem may be solved within 100 years, or in other words, in 2030, and
people would be freed from having to work. Even so, Keynes recommended that we
work three-hour shifts per day. At the time of writing the essay, it seems that a sort
nervous breakdown was common in England and the United States amongst the
6.4 Good Health and Self-Reliance for a Fulfilling Life