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I’m a woman of 48 – and as replaceable in the office as the swivel chair at my desk | Nilanjana Bhowmick
In India, as elsewhere, ‘menopenalisation’ means women in middle age are failed by their employers and wider s…
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Tata redundancy scheme targeted older, non-Indian nationals in UK, tribunal hears
Three claimants allege Mumbai-based consultancy firm discriminated against them during restructuringA UK divis…
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‘They refused to let me go’: Japanese workers turn to resignation agencies to quit jobs
One in six workers has engaged a firm to hand in notice for them, as younger workers reject traditional work e…
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South Korea U-turns on 69-hour working week after youth backlash
Protesters claim proposed increase in hours would risk health and fail to boost low birth rateSouth Korea’s go…
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Slackers barred: testing Tokyo’s anti-procrastination cafe
Would the nagging, stiff chairs and coffee refills at the Manuscript Writing Cafe help Justin McCurry hit his …
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‘Women of the wild’: the platform giving India’s nature experts a voice
Frustrated by a lack of female representation, film-maker Akanksha Sood Singh set up an Instagram account to s…
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The low-desire life: why people in China are rejecting high-pressure jobs in favour of ‘lying flat’
It’s been dubbed ‘tangping’ – shunning tough careers to chill out instead. But how is the Communist party taki…
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G4S migrant workers ‘forced to pay millions’ in illegal fees for jobs
UK-based security firm faces calls to repay charges made by recruitment agents for jobs in Gulf states and con…