Business Culture in Japan and the World

 Hello guys!

Today I will be talking about business culture. The Japanese business culture is being on time to work everyday and if the boss wants to grab a drink after work, well then you join! Without talking about work culture I will try to compare the Japanese culture to Swedish. Here in Japan, its quite common for co-workers to go out and have drinks after work. This is something I like since I feel its great for boosting morale and team spirit. However doing it to often would be to much. In class we discussed how ofter we want to go out and have drinks with our co-workers. I put once a month, however... you should only go out if you have exceeded expectations in regard to goals put up by the boss. I see no point going out for drinks if we didnt for example sell a single product. I wonder if Japanese companies think the same or they just go out for any reason.

The Swedish business culture varies alot between different line of work. For example, real estate agents go out and drink a lot more frequent then school teachers. I think the most common is about 4 times a year. This would be for maybe summer, halloween, christmas or something of the sort. I think this works fine for most people since its not a regular occurance. In Sweden its alright if you dont go because of course people understand that you have a private life. However, because its not a regular occurance you dont want to miss it because its always some shenanigans (funny stuff) going on hahaha.