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Isn’t this frequently reported as being very common in Japan?
by teddyh 4y ago
Isn’t this frequently reported as being very common in Japan?
- protomyth 4y agoI remember a documentary about Sony doing this. [edit] https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/17/business/global/layoffs-illegal-japan-workers-are-sent-to-the-boredom-room.html https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/17/business/global/layoffs-i... [/edit]
- goodpoint 4y agohttps://web.archive.org/web/20220704071443/https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/17/business/global/layoffs-illegal-japan-workers-are-sent-to-the-boredom-room.html https://web.archive.org/web/20220704071443/https://www.nytim...
- omgmajk 4y agoFrom what I hear it's almost impossible to get fired in Japan so it seems likely, I have no sources other than: "I heard it somewhere" for this however.
- fomine3 4y agoFiring is hard for big japanese company so this is alternative way.
- not_the_fda 4y agoYep, I did some integration with a large firm in Japan in the mid 2000's. They had a whole room of people that just sat at their desks and napped or read a book during the day.