Instead of traditional meeting rooms or coffee shops, many companies are requiring employees to run while discussing work, transforming physical activity into a high-stakes dismissal pressure.
Liu, an employee with 15 years of service, won his case after an arbitration body rejected the company's reason for dismissal, which was to "replace him with artificial intelligence".
Ly sued his company after being dismissed for taking lengthy toilet breaks, each lasting one to four hours, despite his claim that hemorrhoids were the reason, not laziness.
A 22-year-old female employee at a logistics company was fired after consistently arriving 30-45 minutes early each day for several years, which her superiors found disruptive.
