7-Eleven Japan steps up support for foreign workers in effort to retain them
Jul 11, 2021 00:04 am UTC| Economy Life
Seven-Eleven Japan Co will start programs supporting its foreign workers private and work life in efforts to retain them amid a labor shortage due to Japans graying population. The convenience store operator, which...
S.Korean employees back to remote working as country braces for worst-ever COVID-19 wave
Jul 09, 2021 23:54 pm UTC| Economy Life Business
South Koreas large corporations are ordering employees to work remotely as the country braces for the fourth wave of COVID-19 with the daily caseload rising to an all-time high of 1,316. The South Korean government will...
Today's intense workplace culture can be traced back to a forgotten Soviet coal miner – podcast
Jul 01, 2021 09:54 am UTC| Life
This episode of The Conversations In Depth Out Loud podcast features the story of a young Soviet miner named Alexei Stakhanov, and how the work ethic he embodied in the 1930s has been invoked by managers in the west ever...
One third of migrant and refugee women experience domestic violence, major survey reveals
Jul 01, 2021 04:54 am UTC| Life
A third of migrant and refugee women in a new survey said they experienced some form of domestic and/or family violence. And temporary visa holders consistently reported proportionately higher levels of domestic and...
S. Korean millionaires increase by 140,000 to 1.05 million in 2020
Jun 24, 2021 21:51 pm UTC| Economy Life Business
The number of South Koreans with assets worth over $1 million, or nearly 1.1 billion won, increased by 140,000 on-year to 1.05 million in 2020, accounting for 2 percent of the worldwide total. Last year, there were 5.2...
Shinhan Card's data reveals gamers spend more on phone plans, food deliveries
Jun 24, 2021 15:20 pm UTC| Economy Life Business
Shinhan Card Co.s transaction data for the first quarter revealed that PC or mobile game users paid 20,000 won more to telecom companies than non-PC or mobile gamers and 48 percent more gamers used food delivery than those...
Working from home: How classism covertly dominated the conversation
Jun 20, 2021 12:22 pm UTC| Life
Since the arrival of the pandemic, media accounts about the new world of work have painted a curiously uniform picture of the jobs that people across the UK do. Chief among them was the idea that everyone was all suddenly...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Why Germany ditched nuclear before coal – and why it won’t go back
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
Sudan: civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight