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  Career women battle Japan's 'salaryman' culture

  CNN - Sophia Yan

  Can women save Japan's economy? A lot of Japanese women know exactly how their careers will end before they've even begun. Two paths are open to new hires at many big Japanese firms: the career and non-career tracks -- sogo-shoku and ippan-shoku in Japanese. They're often referred to as the …

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  Sep 27, 2016

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  Sep 27, 2016
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  Amazon Tests Out 30-Hour Work Week

  TIME - David Z. Morris / Fortune

  The Washington Post reports that Amazon is launching technical teams whose workers will only clock in for 30 hours a week. While plenty of employees at Amazon are part-time, the novelty here is that the teams are entirely made up of workers on a reduced schedule, including managers. The teams’ …

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  Why Teams Fail: The C-Word

  Forbes - Bruno Aziza

  Silicon Valley is bubbling these days. Uber recently raised $3.5B (that’s right, that’s B for Billions). Almost 60% of San Francisco’s houses are now valued above $1M (fewer than 20% were just a few years ago). And the US National Basketball (featuring major Golden State Warriors players) just came …

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  Amazon is testing out a 30-hour workweek

  Business Insider - Chris Weller

  Amazon is planning a pilot program in which a select group of part-time workers will need to log only 30 hours a week, The Washington Post reports. Instead of the normal 40-hour week (or, more recently, the 50-, 60-, or 70-hour week), the world's second-largest retailer will let roughly a dozen …