I can’t imagine working for a company and not having the thought of layoffs in the back of my head. Article states that companies are encouraged to provide life long employment which is pretty great. Here in the US, I hop to a new job every 2-4 years since I don’t think a single company is invested in the worker. So we get both the constant threat of layoffs as well as a five day work week. Sounds like Japan is heading in a better direction since at least the government is behind a four day work week. I can’t imagine a single Republikan being in favor of that.