Japan Workers Are Shifting From Lifetime Employment, LinkedIn Says
- Wakana Tanaka argues skill-based jobs key to gender equality
- Tanaka is also Harvard Business School Japan’s President
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LinkedIn Japan’s first female country head argues that the nation needs to move toward a more skills-based labor market, and firms need to adapt to workers’ changing values if the country is going to improve its persistent gender inequality.
“Japan is at a turning point,” Wakana Tanaka said in her first media interview this week since she took over the top job in late March. “Building your skills constantly is really important in this coming age.”