• Grass@sh.itjust.works
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    12 hours ago

    shit I’d do paid solitary confinement. Way better than power harassment imo, and its literally all I do when I get home anyway.

  • misk@sopuli.xyz
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    22 hours ago

    According to Bloomberg, citing sources familiar with the matter, the company is “taking a traditionally Japanese approach to reducing staff and sending workers to rooms where they are given nothing to do, putting pressure on them to leave voluntarily.”

    Bandai Namco Studios has reportedly moved 200 workers to such rooms, leading to almost 100 resignations.

    I have to sit in an open-space chicken coop whenever I have to go to the office and those guys have 200 spare rooms? What the

  • livjq@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    Oidashi Beya is a practice used by Japanese corporations to isolate employees by giving them no tasks, in an effort to get them to leave of their own volition, rather than be let go and receive severance.

    What the fuck? I really hope the workers get the severance they deserve.

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      20 hours ago

      honestly it’s better than america being laid off and hoping you find a new job before benefits expire