Japanese game developer Gumi has offered buyouts to 80 employees in face of financial losses due to underperforming mobile titles.
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Why is that in brackets?

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It’s probably how they chose to translate “commit seppuku” for western sensibilities.

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Because if you don’t go voluntarily, you will be assigned with the shittiest tasks that are purely there to break you until you leave. Like Konami did by letting you sit in an empty room to do absolutely nothing.

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Haha not sure how it works in Japan but you’d never get me to agree to that in the US.

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It’s just how they word layoff and severance package. In Japan voluntary resignation can be also entitled for severance package depending roles/duration of employment, and this gives larger package than regular voluntary resignation is entitled to, to make them resign “voluntary”.

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Also you can’t fire without cause here, and the burden of proof is on the employer should it be contested. Instead they do this and rely on the cooperation/feeling of obligation/“the implication” to get employees out.

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“Find another job ASAP or we might shut the branch down. Also if you quit, you’ll get a severance package and we’ll give you a glowing recommendation for your new job.”

Assuming they are all 正社員 (seishain) which are a class of full-time employee, the bar for dismissal is high. In fact, it’s common to basically pay employees to go away rather than to actually try to fire them or something. A company can, in actual financial hardship, lay people off. I don’t know what the bar for that is or if there are any criteria as to whom or in which order they must dismiss.

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