Nintendo Employee Data reveals low turnover rate, long average employment period in and outside of Japan
Nintendo Employee Data reveals low turnover rate, long average employment period in and outside of Japan
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Nintendo has always been a scammy company. Kids will buy anything.
Nintendo doesn’t even want people to play Nintendo games unless they’re on their console u think they don’t treat their own employees the same way?
> The first thing the data tells us is how many employees Nintendo actually has. Japan has the most full-time employees with nearly 3,000, while America comes in a somewhat distant second with around 1,500. Nintendo Australia has by the far the fewest employees, at just under 100. Japan also has the highest discrepancy between male and female employees, with close to 75% of their permanent workforce being male. As you can see in the chart above, Nintendo’s other branches are much closer in gender parity.
> After that, we get a much more detailed breakdown with in-depth numbers covering all sorts of aspects of Nintendo’s employees, from disability status to childcare leave. One of the most encouraging statistics is the company’s extremely low turnover rate. In the past year, just under 2% of Nintendo Japan’s employees were replaced, and that number only jumps up to about 5% for America. The average number of years an employee works at Nintendo ranges from 8.5 to 11 for most regions, with Japanese Nintendo employees staying on board for a whopping 14.4 years on average. Based on these numbers, it seems that people who work for Nintendo tend to stick around for a pretty long time, so they must be treating their staff pretty well!
Nintendo’s like that friend who never leaves the party, but you’re always glad they’re around. They make the fun last!
Nintendo is a bully with what they consider their patents but in term of working there everyones says it is one of the best japanese companies to work at if you manage to landa a job there you have one of the most secure ones in the industry.
They’re a stain to gaming, but hey atleast they treat their employees wel.
You know who else has a low turnover? Bgs.
Shareholders must be raging.
That means they are always the same people.
No wonder why things doesn’t change much.
Gaming journalism needs to stop rehashing the same old topics!
I thought this sub was gaming related and not for discussing employee data at gaming companies.
Breaking, data from a Japanese company reveals how Japanese it is.
Just wanna point out that while on-paper it seems good and dandy, they bring in very small amount of new blood to avoid “disrupting” the established culture. The ones that end up staying for long are pure Nintendo through and through.
They also outsource a lot of work. Notably they exploit their 2nd party studio and 3rd party studios to work on the visual assets. Even if 2nd party closes down, it doesn’t affect their on-paper statistics.
And that’s why the bring one banger game after another. Write that down Microsoft, EA, etc. Firing employees may cut costs but you also lose expertise just to rehire people half a year later
It must hurt some people to actually admit that Nintendo for once, do something good. People have to point out that Nintendo is a Japanese company and it’s illegal to layoffs while ignore that even for a Japanese company, Nintendo retention rate is still very high (average rate for Japan is around 70%-85%). Nintendo branches in US, EU and Australia also have low turnover rate, although, Nintendo of America still has American problem of using contractors.
Yes, Nintendo doesn’t do crazy discounts like others. But unlike others, their development is much more sustainable, you don’t have mass layoffs where studios get shut down.
They seem to have a great culture. Didn’t Iwata (as CEO) take a big paycut to avoid layoffs? Pretty rare.
Ofc if you arent in Nintendo’s legal department you get paid while not actually working. Who would leave that job.