Attending the company’s “forget the year party” is all but required in Japan, but there are ways out, say the people who came up with these five fibs.
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Your company is paying for you to take a pleasure trip! Awesome! You’ll be spending all weekend with your boss and coworkers! Not so awesome.
When you’re leaving the office before your coworkers, you don’t tell them “Sayonara,” you tell them “I’m being rude.”
In work-till-you-drop Japan, company is coming to the aid of distraught employees who say “I want to die.”
The life of the stressed-out main character in the live-action Winnie the Pooh film is one of leisure compared to many Japanese adults’.
Ministry of Justice proposal aims to let foreign students stay in Japan after they finish school and work their way up the professional ladder.
Shining Monday initiative sounds great for anyone who likes to party on Sunday night, or just would rather not be working on Monday morning.
In the busiest city in a country famous for working employees to death, Tokyo Workers hopes to help people find the work/life balance they desire.
Governmental organization says your potential boss shouldn’t ask if you want to get married, where you were born, or what kind of car you drive.
The results of a recent survey come with Twitter horror stories about power-hungry superiors pushing their staff around, even mid-crisis.
Family Mart relaxes customer service rules in recognition of clerks who aren’t native Japanese speakers, also allows dyed hair.
Researcher says more than half of central Tokyo convenience stores have foreigners working the graveyard shift.
Close to half say they weren’t in a relationship with the guy at the time.
Frustrated professional busts up her office’s outdated “tea squad” tradition with a perfectly salted comeback.
Exasperated mom says cute animal characters are showing young students exactly what not to do in life.
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