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Smile, you’ve been fired!

On March 8, 2011 By

One of the first causes of stress in the work place is insecurity. Our economies are crumbling, thus, the insecurity at work is making our workers crumble. But how? Making them feel inside of tiny little coffins.

Is your boss demanding from you more and more each time, making you overload? We are so [...]

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Burn out at work

On March 6, 2011 By

What happens when you feel stressed out and really burn out at work? Simply, that you stop being productive. Recent tendencies have been proved as harmful for the mental and physical health of workers. In other words, work, like is commonly thought nowadays, is terribly harmful for our health. Let’s think about the workaholic who [...]

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Example of a Japanese Contract of Employment (2)

On April 21, 2010 By

We already saw a bad example of a Japanese Contract of Employment in a previous post.This time we are going to see a good example of an Employment Contract written in English. As I did in the previous post, I erased the names of both parts.

For further information about what not to [...]

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Example of a Japanese Contract of Employment (1)

On April 2, 2010 By

Here you have a bad example of a Japanese Contract of Employment. I erased the name of both parts. Its content is quite uncertain and the only part in English was the word “signature”, just in the place where the future employee had to sign. You can use it as a guide, but please remember [...]

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Don’t sign if you don’t understand

On March 29, 2010 By

Language misunderstandings could lead to disaster if they occur into the contract field, specially in Japan. I can still remember a friend of mine asking for some advice months after signing his labor contract with a small Japanese IT company, and his desperation coming out his face. He had basically signed a contract in Japanese, [...]

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