Several companies are introducing a new system where their female workers can get transferred to a branch office in a different place when their husbands’ workplace is changed.
They have established this new system so that more women do not have to quit when they get married or give birth to a child because it is now considered imperative for firms to hold their female workers as the birth rate and therefore the labor force decline.
Transferring married employees to different workplaces is impressive, and more employees would be allowed and encouraged to start a family more easily. However, it might cause another problem; when a worker gets married and therefore he/she gets transferred to a distant place where their spouse lives, a single worker may also get transferred as a replacement of the just-married. So single workers have greater possibility of having to change their workplace and it might hamper their development of skills and experience in a certain field. If the single worker has a lover, a long-distance relationship may start due to the exchange.
This type of personnel changes, however, can be employed only by big companies which have many branch offices all over the country. Workers in small firms with a few branches seem to have no choice.
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