Will It Be Possible to Address the Shortage of Skilled Workers in the Future? | The Future of the Construction Industry
Hello, everyone. This is Enta. The other day, while driving from Nagano to Shizuoka on the Chuo Expressway, I snapped a great shot of Mount Fuji lol. Mount Fuji really is awesome, isn't it? By the way, I was talking to the president of a company in Shizuoka, and he said that with the number of engineers dropping this much, prime contractors…
Two-Day Weekends, Labor Shortages, and Foreign Workers: The Triple Challenge Facing the Construction Industry
Hello, everyone. This is Enta. Recently, at job sites managed by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, we’ve been seeing an increase in requests for estimates based on a full two-day weekend system. While a two-day weekend is certainly a good thing, it simply means the construction period gets longer. As a result, the craftsmen’s wages go down. After all, that’s four fewer working days, right? Presumably, from the government’s perspective, they’ll raise the unit labor cost…
The Shortage of Construction Workers and the Foreign Technical Intern Training Program | The Future of the Construction Industry
Hello, everyone. This is Enta. I’ve been running all over the place lately, and there’s quite a bit of construction going on. It looks like we’re going to keep this up all the way through the end of the year. But first, we’ve got a scorching summer coming up, lol. Anyway, getting back to the point—lately, I’ve been getting emails and phone calls from a general contractor I’ve had absolutely no contact with…