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Akane had always enjoyed her job at a Tokyo call centre until, unlike many Japanese mothers, she decided to return to work after finishing...
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Sitting on sofas with laptops balanced awkwardly on their knees as they sip from bottomless cups of tea and coffee, customers have turned an...
World
Omnipresent on the chaotic streets of Mumbai, Jakarta and Bangkok, Asia’s three-wheeled “tuk-tuk” has now come to Africa — and with a two-fold bonus:...
World
Germany began testing a points-based immigration system Friday in a bid to attract more skilled foreigners and end a chronic shortage of workers plaguing...
World
Britain’s MI5 spy agency was on Tuesday named the country’s best employer for promoting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender diversity. The domestic counter-intelligence and...
Business
However, despite the Canadian economy being in the midst of widespread instability and uncertainty, the economy of Ontario, and more specifically Toronto, seems to...
Business
Staffing agencies that employ temporary employees or contractors, also known as “temp agencies” (and the workers as “temps”), are a booming sector of the...
World
A Paris tribunal on Tuesday rejected an urgent appeal from six toilet attendants known as “wee-wee ladies” who say they were unfairly fired by...
World
Mohammed, Fayiq, Zyad, Bilal — an engineer, a high-school student, a cardiologist and an accountant… Or at least they were until they set off...
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Overwhelmed Indian officials have cancelled plans to fill a handful of menial government jobs after being flooded with 75,000 applications — some from university...