Learn in the textbookLabor-Related Laws and Regulations
DefinitionA discretionary work system (裁量労働制) leaves how the work is done and how time is allocated to the worker's discretion, and deems the worker to have worked the hours agreed between labor and management, regardless of the actual hours.
ExplanationIt is limited to the scope the law defines: specialized work where the method must be left to the worker, such as research and development or information system design, and work planning, drafting and researching the business. If the deemed hours are set at 7 a day, the worker is treated as having worked 7 hours that day whether the real figure was 5 or 9. Introducing it requires steps such as a labor-management agreement or a resolution of a labor-management committee.
AnalogyIt is like a job where you are trusted with how to finish it, counted as "one day's work" rather than by the time it took.