Work Reform

Bandai Namco has reportedly turned to the unspoken Japanese tradition of layoff-by-boredom by stuffing unwanted employees into oidashi beya, or "expulsion rooms."

Employees ~~banished~~ reassigned to oidashi beya are left to do nothing, or given menial tasks at best. According to Bloomberg's unnamed insider sources, Bandai Namco has moved around 200 of its 1,300 person team to these rooms in recent months.

The goal of sticking someone in an expulsion room is to literally bore or shame them into quitting, and Bloomberg's sources claim it has worked on around half the people Bandai Namco has stuck in there so far.

After a difficult year that’s seen multiple games fall short of sales expectations, original Life Is Strange developer Don’t Nod is implementing a “reorganization project” that could impact up to 69 jobs – or, as the French union that represents Don’t Nod workers points out, 29 percent of Don’t Nod’s Paris workforce. In light of this, the union, STJV, has denounced company leadership and called for workers to mobilize and defend their jobs.

Don’t Nod has previously said that its latest releases, *Jusant *and Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden, fell short of “commercial expectations,” leading it to “temporarily” pause two other in-development projects. Despite a focus on the upcoming and thus far well-received Lost Records: Bloom & Rage, Don’t Nod now says that “amid deteriorating results” it has been “compelled to consider a reorganization project to safeguard its competitiveness in an increasingly demanding and competitive ecosystem.”  

STJV, which earlier this year published a post criticizing Don’t Nod for a burnout-inducing work environment in which "each project erratically follows another," has deemed the layoff plan “the climax of a series of catastrophic decisions, denounced for a long time by workers' representatives.”  

“Management is hiding being 'the state of the economy' and 'a very competitive market' as excuses for its failures, without ever questioning its inconsistent decisions, which have been harmful to the studio and its workers,” wrote Don’t Nod’s STJV union section in a post published today.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/17488669

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/26440834

Italy: hooded attackers target leatherworkers on picket line, employees from other firms strike in solidarity

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/26440261

Samsung India: government files cases against 625 employees and union activists during strike for union recognition, higher wages, and 8-hour workday

Cooper Alan made a music video/song that's a modern version of 16 tons.

Paywall removed: https://archive.is/8P8ti

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20694419

Major overhaul of workers' rights to be outlined

The 90-hour weeks part?
The fact that he was doing it for a fossil fuel company?
The fact that he's worth fucking $9.5 billion?

Also, not in the headline, but-

The fact that he did it back in the 90s when you could actually successfully open a small business and make money from it as if it's relevant today?

The business is a franchise called Raising Caine's Chicken, which I've never had, but if you go by Yelp reviews, it's either the best restaurant that has ever existed or pretty mediocre.

Also, Wikipedia says very little about his early life, but apparently his parents could afford to send him to a private catholic school, so he didn't exactly grow up improverished.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Graves_(entrepreneur)