Comment by Takuya Kodama

The most serious risk is that an organization's talent quietly stops evolving. Entry-level roles are not simply a cost line; they are an engine of renewal. When young people work alongside experienced colleagues, something more than knowledge transfer seems to come from that interaction. New kinds of professionals can emerge – with profiles neither generation might have imagined on their own. Remove the entry point, and a company may look more efficient for a few quarters, but its talent is at risk of becoming frozen at precisely the moment it needs to evolve fastest. This is not only a corporate question but a societal one.