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.
He was made a window-seat tribe member and spends every day looking out the window.
窓際族という言葉は、日本の企業文化を象徴している。
The term 'window-seat tribe' symbolizes Japanese corporate culture.