Sony and other Japanese companies using ‘banishment rooms’ to push employees to resign

[Zekkyou]

And so do American companies. The only difference is it's not actually legal, so they go about doing it with side routs (reducing your hours to the bare minimum, transferring you to undesirable places, etc until you quit). From what I understand, Sony actually have a rather large severance package compared to many Japanese countries.

It's a terrible practice, but that's how businesses are these days.