Oh what a feeling! Toyota Motor Co.’s Philippines subsidiary makes Camrys, Corollas and now, according to Shukan Asahi (11/10), whoopee!
Nine workers from Toyota Motor Philippines were punished after they used a company meeting to call in a stripper. The lass who bared all was performing as part of a Toyota-sanctioned activity called “Personal Touch,” or PT.
Toyota started running the personal touch programs in Japan and kept them up at its offshoots across the globe. “It’s been one of the company’s labor policies in implementation since the late ’60s,” a former Toyota worker tells Shukan Asahi.
Personal touch meetings are supposed to provide a chance for managers to communicate with the staff beneath them. They’re still run in Japan, but they’re called fureai katsudo (mixing activities) here.
“Personal touch meetings usually take place outside of the factory, so we don’t have concrete details about what took place,” a spokesman for the subsidiary tells Shukan Asahi.
“We’ve heard that some people went too far and were punished for it, but we regard this as a local matter and will respect whatever decision was made locally,” a Toyota spokesman in Japan says.
“Strip shows are part and parcel of wining and dining during personal touch meetings. Workers have a lottery to see who gets to sleep with the stripper and some employees have actually done the deed,” a Toyota Philippines worker tells Shukan Asahi. “Do Japanese employees attend? We may sometimes invite them as guests.” (By Ryann Connell)
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