Sega 'Isolated Employees' Case Comes to a Close

As part of Sega’s restructuring and subsequent downsizing, the Tokyo games giant wanted rid of several employees. To avoid the costly process of officially making them redundant, Sega simply put them all twelve of them to work, on their own, with absolutely nothing to do.

Understandably, these employees got sick of sitting alone in a room, being isolated from the rest of the company and having nothing to do, so they decided to take Sega, a company that has a good record with employee relationships, to court.

Yesterday the Tokyo District Court ruled that Sega must make a formal apology to the workers and pay them an undisclosed amount of compensation for attempting to make good workers resign as a result of “psychological harshness.”

Sega was also warned to give “due consideration” to all its employees in the future.