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MIT News highlights a project documenting the tech worker movement, tracing how employees at major technology companies have organised around workplace conditions, ethics and activism. The effort collects accounts of organising drives and protests across the industry. Observers see growing interest in labor organising within tech as layoffs, return-to-office disputes and ethical concerns continue to stir debate among workers.

The phrase 'naru hayaku', meaning 'as soon as possible', is trending in Japan. Discussion ties it to workplace communication culture, prompted by an NHK news item asking whether employees attach honorifics like 'san' to managers' titles, and how honestly people speak at work. Commenters are debating informal language, hierarchy and directness in Japanese offices.