Record 177 career-track Japanese bureaucrats quit in fiscal 2022

A record 177 national civil servants in career-track positions quit in fiscal 2022, less than 10 years after being hired,

Less than 10 years after being hired" that's another way to say people that are young which only work less 10 years, now are quitting the Govt. Which is good, they know they have choice and they took action. It also imply about working environment.

Working fairly close to the central administration I must say that they are, in my opinion, the entity that is ignoring the Government's (hypocritical) efforts to create something resembling a proper work-life balance. Not that it is the fault of the individuals.

A record 177 national civil servants in career-track positions quit in fiscal 2022, less than 10 years after being hired, recent government data showed, with concerns about long working hours and insufficient pay influencing their decisions.

10 years is a long time career-wise. If you're being overworked, underpaid and just overall abused, I'd be quitting in that time and go looking for a better job.

This is good news. It suggests they've either quit to do something else or been headhunted.

Lack of flexibility is a massive problem in the Japanese labour market. You should be able to switch jobs with ease even in your fifties, never mind when you are younger. This hits women, who may wish to take a break to have kids, or anyone else who doesn't see working forty years straight at the same place as their mission in life.

Present Japanese bureaucrats who are demanded even illegal act to maintain incompetent and corrupted LDP regime, not working for citizen.

You pay peanuts, you get Japanese bureaucrats.

They have to propagate the government's lies that are becoming increasingly out of sync with the way people live now. Goebbels isn't exactly a great role model. My advice to you kids out there is emigrate while you still can!

They now see there is no benefit!

Without competitive salaries the only appeal left for bureaucrats is the permanency of their jobs, but with conditions bad enough that also cease to be an incentive. After all permanent jobs are only so if the person does not get a better one.

It would be interesting to see how many of those "career" bureaucrats were women... I'm gonna go out on a limb and say zero!