Vampire Enterprises: the Monster That Destroyed Japan

★A must-have "prevention guide" for social animals to stay away from PUA traps in the workplace ★The secret of corporate "blood compensation law" that shocked Japanese society [About the author] Haruki Imano was born in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan in 1983. Currently, he is the representative director of NPO corporation "POSSE". PhD in sociology from Hitotsubashi University, specializing in employment relations theory and labor sociology. Special researcher of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. Co-representative of the Vampire Enterprise Countermeasures Project. His books include "The Correct Use of Labor Law" (East Publishing), "Don't Lose to Blood-sucking Enterprises" (co-authored by Xundao Press), etc. [Introduction] Japanese people once generally believed that the root cause of problems faced by young people at work was their own "selfishness" and "willfulness." In this social atmosphere, even if there is obvious illegal behavior on the part of the company, the young people who have been violated will feel deeply uneasy and feel that "it is still their fault", and therefore suffer both physical and mental torture. However, as time goes by, people gradually realize that the core of the problem lies in the enterprise's labor management system rather than the individual, and call those unscrupulous companies that exploit young people with wages that are so low that they cannot plan for the future and overtime work that makes their private lives collapse, and treat them as "throw away" as "blood-sucking companies." Common characteristics of blood-sucking companies include: large hiring and large firings, exaggerated salaries and benefits, formal employees in name only, strategic workplace bullying, and failure to pay overtime pay... They not only destroy the physical and mental health of employees and the trust between companies and employees, but also pass on costs to society, threaten the safety of consumers and markets, and even undermine the country's economic development. Of course, it is not enough just to learn "how to identify vampire companies" at the individual level. The final solution to this problem requires the entire society to unite and face it together. This book won the 2013 Daibutsu Jiro Forum Award, and the author also won the 2014 Japan Labor and Social Society Award. After the publication of the book, the term "blood-sucking companies" became a hot word and was shortlisted in the TOP 10 buzzwords of the year. It also attracted much attention. The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare issues a blacklist of "blood-sucking companies" every year to help job seekers escape the labor trap.