“Employee dormitories” are back in the spotlight in an effort to secure talent and prevent employees from leaving．．．they also feature large baths with saunas and cafes．
The movement to improve employee dormitories is spreading among major companies. There has been a noticeable movement to abolish the system since the mid-2000s, but it is being reevaluated in recent years due to difficulties in hiring and high housing prices. The facility is designed to make it easy for residents to interact with each other, with amenities such as a large public bath with sauna and a gym. In addition to securing human resources, the aim also appears to be to prevent young people from leaving the workforce. “It was reassuring to have a senior colleague from another department who I became friends with at the company dormitory give me advice. It also saves on living expenses.” Atsushi Ikematsu (24), who is in his third year at Itochu Corporation, said: The company consolidated its four employee dormitories and opened a new men’s dormitory in Yokohama in March 2018. It is equipped with a large public bath, dining hall, and sauna, and can accommodate approximately 230 people. The plan is to open a women’s dormitory in 2025. Mitsubishi UFJ Bank will begin rebuilding one of its largest employee dormitories, Ichigaya Dormitory (Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo), as early as the fall of 2025. In traditional dormitories, it was common for baths and toilets to be shared, but the new dormitories will provide privacy for young people who value privacy, and will provide them in each room. On the other hand, to encourage interaction among residents, there will be a laundry corner with a large monitor for watching sports, a cafe, and telework booths. As inflation is causing rents for properties in the city center to rise, the rent is expected to be “about half” of the surrounding market price (according to a source). Ryota Kikuchi, deputy general manager of the company’s facility strategy office, said, “The dormitory is a place where people spend more time than at work. “This is an essential investment to improve our recruiting capabilities,” he said. Read the full article below [Yomiuri Shimbun] 2024/11/2 (Sat) 12:30.
>>1 And then, the employee dormitory is surrounded by a wall, there are security cameras at the front and back doors, a full-time employee patrols every hour, there is a monitoring station in front of the only gate leading to the outside, you need permission to go out on holidays, employees are always on the watch at the nearest station, the roads are regularly patrolled, employees reach out to taxi and bus companies and report you, and you’re exhausted after 15 hours of physical labor, so you don’t have the energy to walk 10km over a mountain path on foot when you get home, so you can’t escape, right?
It depends on how much privacy (masturbation or sex) is respected, but it would be a big benefit for young people if it could significantly reduce housing costs.
I imagine that companies with this kind of capacity would also hold company-sponsored events like cherry blossom viewing, fireworks, and barbecues, and hopefully these events would encourage young people to get to know each other and lead to marriage.
The suburbs of Saitama, Kanagawa, and Chiba were full of employee dormitories, recreation facilities, and training facilities. The big companies have secured the best land, and I miss the post office buildings here and there. I have a thick city atlas called 1/10000 Wide Million that I bought in the 1990s (the title of the map is “taku” instead of “cho”).
It was a company dormitory with shift work at a large factory, so it was great to be able to use the large public bath in the morning and evening. The steam pipes for heating came in from the factory, which gave it a steampunk feel.
>>46 You can’t even get into a bank or a trading company, right? Don’t worry, it’s an industry where science students with communication problems don’t need to worry.
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