High percentages of those who do take jobs at McDonalds quit within a short time. There are alternatives to US-style bureaucracies and their problems. The Japanese have one such alternative. Hiring and advancement of cohorts together. Lifetime job security.
People tend to retire from the same company with which they got their first job.
The workplace as source of a broad spectrum of social involvements. There are many company towns in which people who work together also live together, exercise together, socialize together, etc. Training for all phases of operations instead of specialization. Many jobs in American union shops, where work rules have created jobs which do not require actual full-time work but operations require that someone capable of doing the work must be available at all times. In a Japanese company, a worker would be pulled from another job to do these specialized tasks as needed and return to those duties as soon as the specialized or occasional task was performed.