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You can offer benefits but it’s harder to make people take the benefits. Japan has great paternity leave but no one takes it, because no one else takes it. You can double the length of the leave and it would make no difference.

It’s like the “unlimited” vacation days that some scummy companies offer. They do so confident that people will be shamed by the behaviour of their peers into taking very little vacation.

>>nindal+(OP)
An easy change would be to make it mandatory.

>>rowanG+W2
I'm not sure if the Japanese society is big on obeying labour laws. You'd have to make it mandatory and enforce it heavily.

https://japantoday.com/category/crime/illegal-amounts-of-ove...

>>rowanG+W2
You are also fighting what has become a tradition and cultural norms. There is a huge struggle to stop companies from committing wage theft (through unpaid extra work hours) or straight out overworking their employees (sometimes to the point of suicide).

>>rowanG+W2
Some of my colleagues were already complaining that the government is forcing them to take leave. I can't imagine how much grumpier they will get if the government forces them to take even more.