Bad things happening at Konami - Nikkei report

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JRPGfan said:

JEMC said:

Having cameras and monitoring the time their employees take during breaks isn't surprising nor something that extraordinary. The email thing is odd, because I'm quite sure that there must be lost of employees that no longer know their e-mail adress or the e-mail from other co-workers, so their job is harder than it could be, but if they are finewith their employees losing time whenever they want to send e-mails, that's up to them.

Now, publicy announcing which employees have taken a longer than usual break (which we don't know why) to shame them, or mobbing employees to make them resign (which I assume is cheaper that firing them), or the Facebook thing... I don't know which laws have Japan, but in a lot of countries that's not legal.

Well, at least we know how will Konami disappear: it will explode from the inside once their employees leave en masse.

You forgot to add in, makeing them scrub toilets ect.

Because thats every programmers dream.... to find out they currently dont have anything for him to do, and to send him off to scrub toilets.

 

"Konami developers who aren’t seen as useful are reassigned duties such as security guards, cleaning staff at fitnes clubs, or roles at pachi-slot machine factories. This includes producers who worked on big titles. In 2013, Japanese newspaper Asahi News reported on a former Konami employee who allegedly went from development to working in a Konami pachi-slot factory, which led him into severe depression."

 

Im pretty sure I would quit my job, if I was hired as a programmer in a gameing studio, but made to scrub toilets instead.

That's what Mobbing / Workplace bullying is about:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workplace_bullying