I’ll Bet You Didn’t Think Taiwan Was The Ideal Place To Work…

… BUT JUDGING by this latest story to hit the news I reckon you might just be wrong.

Let’s be honest, most of the time work is a pain in the arse; we do it because we need the cash, in order to have a life of any sort. It’s either than or rob banks for a living isn’t it?

And of course because our wonderful companies are so ‘people’ focused these days they invariably force these ‘days’ down our throats, and we – like good lemmings – are expected to play along. You know the sort of thing I’m talking about right? The Bring-Your-Kids-To-Work day or the Theme-Dress day or even the gawd aweful ‘awareness’ days that seem to be growing in popularity of late.

Most of the time it’s just safer to be somewhere else when all this people-focused stuff is going on. Let’s face it, Human Remains Relations are not usually the type to have their finger on the pulse of the workers; they’re usually too busy trying to shaft them out of something instead.

But, I can finally report that one company, an underwear company no less, has managed to completely revamp my views. In celebration of their huge sales of late Audrey Underwear decided to have a, wait for it… Camisole Day.

Yup. You guessed it. Their female employees were encouraged to come into work on Camisole Day, wearing nothing but their camisoles and knickers. Of the 500 women employed by the company up to 90% of them responded by doing exactly that.

The men who worked there were pretty much in heaven for the day, some on the verge of a heart attack by the time the day was out. Some of the women had been dieting and exercising for weeks in advance, just for the occasion.

Huang Bihui, PR manager of the company, explained: “We introduced eight new camisoles into market and sold more than 20,000 in less than two months so we named the 21st [of November] as Camisole Day.” and employment lawyers said there was nothing illegal in the move so long as it was voluntary.

We would never be that lucky would we?