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Sanae Takaichi: Japan’s first female prime minister and ultra-conservative starSanae Takaichi becomes Japan's first female prime minister. She leads the Liberal Democratic Party, a significant shift in the country's po...
To change job-centric culture, 'workaholic' Japan wants its citizens to work for just four days a weekJapan is working to address labor shortages by promoting four-day workweeks. Though the government supports this initiative, it has been sl...
Now ‘job leaving agents’ are helping people in Japan to escape awkwardness of quitting workIn Japan, 'taishoku daiko' or 'job-leaving agents' have emerged to help people who want to quit their jobs without going through the shame ...
In workaholic Japan, 'job leaving agents' help people escape the awkwardness of quittingThe rise of "taishoku daiko," or "job-leaving agents," in Japan reflects a cultural shift in a nation known for loyalty to companies and li...
Is WFH here to stay? With network issues, wrecked employee morale & security threats, the answer is not that simpleDue to coronavirus, office workers around the world were forced to participate in world’s biggest telecommuting experiment.
Natarajan Chandrasekaran will need to contend with core business challengesOne of Chandra’s bigger preoccupations may be with institutional shareholders, especially the more active foreign investors, who were worri...
Four years under Cyrus Mistry’s watch, Tatas march to a new drumbeatCyrus Mistry, nearly four years into his tenure as Tata boss, is slowly steering the group in a new direction and growing out of the shadow...
How large corporations go about picking CXO-level honchosMNCs come with their own culture nuances. which are apparent in the way they vet, hire and manage their senior management executives.
Workaholic young leaders find innovative ways to switch offAccepting that running a startup isn’t easy and moments of relaxation can be few and far between, they prefer to incorporate them into dail...
Hard-working young leaders find innovative ways to relax at workCompletely accepting that running a startup isn’t a piece of cake and moments of relaxation can be few and far between, they prefer to inco...
Parental leave: Why Indian bosses rarely pull a Mark ZuckerbergUnlike the Facebook CEO, who plans to take a two-month paternity leave after his daughter's birth, top honchos in India juggle work and par...
20 questions to find out if you're a workaholicDo you get more excited about your work than you do about anything else? To figure out if you're a workaholic, ask yourself these 20 questi...
Can’t stand Lalit Modi having fun on the run? Too bad. It’s not a crime"While we, upright citizens with lower back pain, were suffering the heat and humidity, this fugitive was holed up in Montenegro."
- Questions rise about temps, overwork at Toyota
Toyota Motor Corp. has long boasted a stellar reputation for super-efficient production that has become the lore of countless business succ...
- Japan logs out of PCs
Masaya Igarashi wants $200 headphones for his new iPod Touch, and he's torn between Nintendo Co's Wii and Sony's PlayStation 3 game console...