15 articles
Culture
Bank employees in Japan sign 146-year-old ‘suicide pledge’ to deter theft
Employees at Shikoku Bank in Japan have signed a pledge vowing to “commit suicide” if they are found guilty of financial wrongdo...
Ryan General
Business
Chinese supermarket chain grants employees 10 days of ‘sad leave’
Chinese supermarket chain Fat Dong Lai introduced a unique employee benefit called “sad leave,” granting workers 10 days off ann...
Michelle De Pacina
Former Nintendo CEO’s refusal to fire workers remembered as gaming industry struggles
The refusal of former Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata to sack employees amid financial challenges has resonated in the gaming industry amid recent...
Japanese tech giant Panasonic to offer workers 4-day workweek
Japanese electronics corporation Panasonic will now offer the option of four-day work weeks to its employees. The decision was made amidst a...
Jiselle Lee
Asia
Chinese Company Forces Employees to Drink Urine as Punishment for Not Meeting Quota
Three managers at a home renovation company in Zunyi, Guizhou province, China were arrested for subjecting their employees to severe punishm...
Bryan Ke
Video of Supervisor Slapping Employees Sparks Outrage in China
A video featuring what appears to be a female supervisor slapping employees in the face recently went viral in China, prompting widespread c...
Japanese Company Now Offers Benefits to Workers Married to Anime Characters
A company in Japan has announced it will give family support benefits to its otaku employees who are “married” to their beloved anime charac...
Company Punishes Under-Performing Employees by Forcing Them to Eat Live Worms
In the hopes of improving employee performance, a Chinese company has implemented an unusual form of punishment for its less productive work...
These Tech Companies Allow Their Employees to Get High at Work
Many companies across America wouldn’t hire an applicant who admitted to smoking marijuana, but in Colorado, where pot is legal, some tech s...
Editorial Staff
Lifestyle
Companies Who Give This Free Perk Have the Happiest Employees
A survey conducted last month revealed that companies who offer free snacks to their employees have the happiest work environments. The sur...
Riley Schatzle
Office Employees Use 3,579 Post-It Notes To Make Their Boring Office Amazing
In an office far, far away in the UK, a team of creatives used 3,579 sticky notes to create four different murals of Star Wars characters. ...
These CEOs Make a Disgustingly Large Amount of Money Compared to Their Employees
The Securities and Exchange Commission has adopted a new protocol mandated by the Dodd-Frank financial law that will require large companies...
News
CEO Hands Out $27 Million in Bonuses to Employees After Company Buyout
In an ideal world, all company executives would share their success with the many workers that made that success possible. We don’t live in ...
Max Chang
Fired 2,200 Employees in the Most Evil Way, Walmart Did
Just before 7 p.m on Monday this week, Walmart, possibly the largest Sith-controlled corporation in the galaxy, announced to 2,200 un...
Sebastian Dillon
Starbucks Is Now Offering Free College Tuition For Employees
Starbucks announced on Monday that they will now offer their employees the chance to earn a bachelor’s degree for free with Arizona State Un...
Sarah Lesnar
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