Today’s Business Japanese is “Kata-tataki”. It literally means “Hitting employee’s shoulder”
In fact, managers silently hit employees’ shoulder from the back, call the meeting room, and do the retirement advice.
Recently, “Kata-tataki” is widely done in the giant IT firms in the USA.
In Japan “Kata-tataki” was done at hotel industry and restaurant industry during Corona period.
And not enough employees have come back even after Corona finished. Therefore, hotels and restaurants can not accept all customers because of not enough employees.
Companies have to increase the severance pay or take care of reemployment in case of “Kata-tataki”. Otherwise, there is a chance to be sued by the employees. “Kata-tataki” has to done softly like grandchildren do “Kata-tataki” to their grandmother.
