窓まど際ぎわ族ぞく

noun

window-seat tribe; useless employees shunted off to a window desk

A Japanese business term for older employees who are given little work and seated by a window until retirement, often as a form of indirect dismissal.

• 彼かれは窓まど際ぎわ族ぞくにされて、毎まい日にち窓まどの外そとを眺ながめている。

  He was made a window-seat tribe member and spends every day looking out the window.

• 窓まど際