Link to section🌏 Colleague Nationality (Engineers)
61% of respondents who were born in Japan worked at a company where the majority of their engineering colleagues were Japanese, compared to only 19% of those who were not born in Japan.
Respondents who said all of their engineering colleagues were Japanese had the lowest compensation, with a median of ¥5.5 million.
Link to section🌏 Colleague Nationality (Non-Engineers)
When all of a respondent's non-engineer colleagues were non-Japanese, 97% worked on an engineering team where all their colleagues were non-Japanese. The reverse wasn't true though. When all of a respondent's non-engineer colleagues were Japanese, only 29% worked on an engineering team where all their colleagues were Japanese.
Link to section💬 Japanese Usage
Given that only 40% of respondents said they spoke Japanese at a professional level, it's not surprising that only 32% of respondents said they frequently or always used Japanese with their colleagues.
Link to section💬 English Usage
Respondents who frequently or always used English had the highest compensation, with a median of ¥9.5 million. Those who never used or rarely used English had the lowest compensation, with a median of ¥5.5 million. These respondents also had the lowest median years of professional experience. However, even when controlling for experience, those who never or rarely used English had the lowest compensation.
Link to section⚧ Colleague Gender
The gender of engineering colleagues wasn't correlated with the gender of the respondent.
Link to section🕐 Hours per week
72% of respondents regularly worked 40 hours or less per week.
Link to section🏝️ Remote Work Policy
While in 2023, 43% of respondents could make the choice of coming into the office or not, this was down to 38% this year, with those subject to a hybrid policy increasing by a corresponding amount.
Respondents who were not allowed to work remotely had the lowest professional satisfaction.
Link to section💸 Paid Leave Percentage
55% of respondents anticipated they'd use at least 80% of their paid leave. Among respondents who engineering colleagues were all Japanese, this dropped to 47%, while among those who had no Japanese colleagues, it increased to 64%.
Link to section😀 Workplace Perks
Those who were not looking for a job reported aspects of their workplace as being positive at a much higher rate than those who were actively looking. For instance, while 82% of respondents who were not looking for a job said they were satisfied with their working conditions, only 48% of those who were looking for a job said the same.
Link to section☹️ Workplace Difficulties
Those who had to attend an office were more negative about their workplace than those who could work fully remotely on every aspect we surveyed except job security. Company culture was especially negative for those who could not work remotely, with 53% saying it was a negative aspect of their job, compared to 16% of those who worked in a fully remotely environment.
Link to section🏆 Most Important Benefit
49% of respondents said remote work was their most important benefit, taking the top spot with no overtime a distant second at 12%.
The more remote a company's work policy, the more likely respondents were to say remote work was their most important benefit. While 36% of respondents working in a hybrid environment said it was their most important benefit, 72% of those in a fully remotely environment said the same.