What is Happening in the Workplace?

This chapter examines factors that inhibit creativity in the workplace. The dominant idea in the workplace, in both Japan and worldwide, is managing everything with numerical data. In a highly systematized society, the Internet connects things and people, and business and daily life are based on this connection. In fact, living without Internet access is unthinkable. We use examples from the workplace to explain the current situation wherein creativity is being lost in a society in which everything is managed by data.