This is Emi, a 24 year old Japanese woman working in Tokyo, and she's just waking up.

這是Emi，一位在東京工作的24歲日本女性，而她現在正要起床

This is her morning routine -

這是她早上的例行公事

she doesn't take a shower to get ready for work, as some may assume.

她不會在上班前沖澡，跟一些人認為的不一樣

Like many Japanese, she prefers taking a bath in the evening before she goes to bed instead.

跟很多日本人相同，她比較喜歡在晚上睡覺前洗澡

How long does it take to put on your makeup?

你會花多少時間化妝？

Nice spread, but who made breakfast for you?

很多樣東西耶，誰幫你準備早餐？

Well, Emi completely bailed on breakfast.

喔，Emi完全拋棄了早餐

It's okay, though, she's trying to be on time.

但沒關係啦，她只是想準時上班

In fact, many Japanese just grab a small breakfast like an onigiri from the convenience store on their way to work.

其實很多日本人只會吃少量的早餐，像是在上班路上便利商店買的飯糰

So if you didn't notice already, Emi still lives with a family, which is a fairly common thing in Japan -

你可能已經察覺到了，Emi還跟她的家人一起住，這在日本蠻常見的

even after graduating from university.

甚至在大學畢業後也一樣

Emi commutes to work by train, but the closest train station from her house is about a 10 minute walk.

Emi搭地鐵去上班，但是離她家最近的地鐵站大概要走10分鐘

The average commute time in Tokyo is about 45 minutes to an hour.

在東京，平均通勤時間大概45分鐘到1個小時

An hour train ride in the morning!

早上一個小時的搭車時間！

Sounds a bit long but Emi is quite lucky as she doesn't need to transfer trains in the morning like others.

聽起來很久，但Emi已經蠻幸運的了，因為她不用像其他人一樣，在早上還要轉車

So this is the train. Right now, it's arriving.

這就是她搭的地鐵，已經要到站了

It's such a long, long ride!

真的搭超級久的！

So Emi's office is located in the Otemachi area, which is considered Tokyo's premier business district.

Emi的辦公室位在大手町站，是東京的高級商業區

She works for a company called Pasona, one of the largest staffing service companies in Japan.

她在一家叫做Pasona的公司工作，日本最大的人力派遣服務公司之一

There's about 4000 staff in her office alone,

光在她的辦公室裡，就有快4000名員工

and about 9000 in total worldwide.

世界各地的員工加起來則大概有9000名

Is this building only Pasona people?

這棟大樓只有Pasona的員工嗎？

You don't have a monitor?

你沒有一個外接螢幕嗎？

And that's Emi's boss. Super friendly.

那是Emi的老闆，人超好的

And this is Emi's office - as you can see, very open and colorful compared to most Japanese offices.

這就是Emi的辦公室。跟大多數日本辦公室比起來，你可以看到這是一個非常開放和有許多色彩的空間

Since Emi works in the PR department, her first task of the day is to read all the newspapers,

因為Emi在公關部門工作，她每天早上第一件任務就是閱讀所有的報紙

so she's up to speed with what's going on in Japan and the rest of the world.

如此一來才能跟上日本和世界各地正在發生的事

And today's Monday, so she has to catch up on all the news over the weekend,

而今天是星期一，她必須了解所有週末發生的事

so she's in a bit of a rush.

所以她現在有點忙

Check out this view outside, it's pretty dope.

看看這外面的景色，蠻棒的

Is everyone here doing the same job?

在這裡的大家都在做同樣的工作嗎？

How are people seated in the office?

辦公室的座位是怎麼安排的？

So check this out - this happens often in Japanese offices.

快看，這常在日本辦公室出現

This lady is passing out souvenir sweets from her vacation.

這位女士在分發她放假時買的甜點紀念品

It's called "omiyage" in Japanese.

在日文裡叫做『omiyage』

It's customary in Japan to bring something back from your vacation for people in the office.

在日本，放假完後帶一些紀念品給同事是一種習慣

It's kind of a way to show gratitude to others for letting you take a break from work

這是謝謝他們讓你遠離工作喘口氣

and for them covering you while you're away.

並暫代你工作的一種方法

Oh, and there's another person doing it!

喔，又有另一個人在這麼做了！

In my 15+ years in Japan, I've never seen anyone forget to do this.

我待在日本有15年以上了，從來沒看過有人忘記這件事

So one thing I'm really noticing is just how quiet this office is.

我察覺到這個辦公室真的很安靜

There's not a lot of loud voices,

沒有什麼很大的聲響

which I guess when working in a workspace like this, where it's all open,

我想這對在像是這樣一個完全開放的辦公空間工作的人來說

it's very, very helpful.

是非常、非常有幫助的

Literally it's like actually fairly respectable.

這樣真的很尊重大家

Not a lot of people are talking -

沒有很多人在講話

you can actually get work done here because no one's too loud.

因爲沒有人太大聲，所以你真的可以不被打擾地順利完成工作

People actually don't wear headphones.

這裡人們不戴耳機

In my previous office, I used to wear headphones.

在我之前的辦公室，我會戴耳機

But that was probably just me.

但可能只有我啦

But I've actually noticed something interesting.

我也察覺到一件有趣的事

I don't know if it's something worldwide.

我不知道世界上其他地方有沒有

There was a desk with a little humidifier on it.

在桌子上有一個加濕器

Is that something that's just Japan, or does the rest of the world where like people have humidifiers on their desk because the air is too dry?

是只有日本有嗎？還是世界上其他地方也會有人因為空氣太乾，也會在桌上放加濕器？

So what I'm showing you right now is the company's morning assembly meeting.

我現在給你們看的是，這個公司早上的集合會議

In Japanese, it's called "chourei", and it takes place every morning.

在日文裡叫做『chourei』，是每天早上會開的會議

I'm kind of surprised that Emi's company still does this, being as progressive as they are,

我還蠻驚訝Emi的公司已經這麼進步了，還在執行這樣的會議

as you see this more commonly practiced in old traditional Japanese companies.

因為這樣的會議通常會在比較傳統的日本老公司進行

Basically during the meeting, they share important company news from different departments.

基本上在會議中，他們會分享來自不同部門的重要公司內部新聞

I suppose it's equivalent to today's company email newsletter blast.

我想就跟現在會狂發的公司新聞報一樣

Then after the company-wide meeting finishes, each department gets together and they do the same thing.

然後在這個全公司參與的會議結束後，每個部門會再聚在一起做同樣的事

Okay, since Emi's busy with her work, let's play Curious George and explore the office.

好吧，既然Emi工作很忙，我們來大冒險、探索一下這間辦公室

So let's just go down here and see what they have...

我們從這邊下去看看他們有什麼......

So you can see this is the pantry area.

你可以看到這邊是茶水間

So she fills all the water heating pots up in the morning.

她每天早上會把熱水瓶裝滿

It's then literally used to make tea, which is served during client meetings throughout the day.

然後就可以用來泡茶，在接下來的一整天在客戶會議上供大家享用

So this is quite interesting because this is one of the executive offices here.

這裡滿有趣的，因為它是一個行政會議室

And you can see that there's no wall here - it's an open space,

然後你可以看到它完全沒有牆，是一個開放的空間

it's just like this entire office.

就像這整個辦公室的風格一樣

So I just found out the CEO has a whole stack of blank birthday cards to give out to people.

我剛剛發現CEO有整疊空白生日卡片，可以用來分給大家

What he uses it for is like, he knows a lot of people apparently, and whenever there's a birthday,

這個對他的用處是，因為他認識太多人了，所以只要有人生日

he just grabs a card he likes and then writes on the birthday card and sends it.

他就拿張他喜歡的卡片，然後寫些祝福寄出去

But I'm really liking his style.

我真的蠻喜歡他的風格的

It's pretty dope!

很酷！

Emi, where are you going?

Emi，你要去哪裡？

It's crazy she's actually going to work out in the middle of the day, at 10 o'clock right now.

現在大白天的10點鐘，她要去運動真的很瘋狂

It's quite progressive, in my opinion, that a company allows employees to work out during the day.

在我看來，公司能讓員工在上班空檔去運動真的很進步

Let alone having a full gym built inside of the office.

更不用提在公司裡有一個專屬的健身房了

You do need to pay a monthly fee, though,

但你還是要付月費的啦

and if you want, they have personal trainers to customize your workout.

而且如果你想要的話，他們有私人教練能客製化你的訓練

It's pretty neat that they can, like, work out in the middle of the day.

能在大白天讓你運動是蠻酷的

She's actually still wearing her suit.

她其實還穿著套裝

If you do want to come here and like get a full workout on, then you can do that as well.

如果你真的想來這裡，全身心投入運動也是可以的

Check that out - slippers on top of my shoes.

你看，我穿著鞋子還穿拖鞋

Pretty cool, so you can like, come here, wear your regular shoes with the slippers on.

蠻酷的，你可以來這裡穿你平常的鞋子，然後再穿拖鞋

So Emi, you have an hour until lunch break.

Emi，離午餐休息時間你還剩一個小時

What are you working on now?

你現在要做什麼？

How do you like your job?

你有多喜歡你的工作？

So now, she's making phone calls and doing your standard computer work -

所以她正在打電話，並做些普通的電腦文書處理

checking emails, drafting documents, filling out reports etc. -

查看電子信箱、起草文件、填寫報告等等

you know the deal if you've ever worked in an office.

如果你有在辦公室工作過，你就會了解啦

So another interesting thing is that the CEO actually just sits right here in the center of the office.

那另一件有趣的事情是，CEO其實是坐在整間辦公室的正中間這裡

His chair is just right here.

他的椅子就在這裡

I think it's pretty impressive that he just sits right around everyone.

我想他就這樣跟大家一起坐著，還蠻令人欽佩的

Anyone can just like talk to him when he's here.

在他在這裡的時候，任何人都可以直接跟他講話

What do you guys prefer?

你們喜歡哪樣？

Do you guys prefer having like blocked-off cubicles? Or do you like this open office style?

你們比較喜歡分開的工作隔間嗎？還是你喜歡這種開放的辦公室風格呢？

One thing though, he does have the nicest seat in the office.

值得一提，他的確有全辦公室最好的座位

That's one difference.

那就是一個差別

So I'm in the seminar room right now.

我正在會議室裡

Emi is downstairs doing her work, so let's explore the office.

Emi在樓下處理公事，所以我們來逛逛辦公室吧

I heard there might be a combini on the third floor, so let's go check it out.

我聽說好像在三樓有一個便利商店，所以我們去看看吧

It's a proper combinb, has like everything you would want.

這是一個很不錯的便利商店，有全部你需要的東西

It has drinks, bakery stuff, even has some bentos, all the onigiris you'd want.

有飲料、麵包，還有一些便當跟你可以想到的全部飯糰種類

It's kind of cool just like walking around this place.

逛這個地方還蠻酷的

Here's a quick peek into the little boy's room - not much different than the rest of the world.

很快地看一下男廁，跟世界上其他男廁沒什麼不同

Oh wait, maybe except the sound button built into the bidet.

喔等等，馬桶旁邊這個音樂按鈕可能不太一樣

It helps mask noises when using the toilet.

它會幫你在讓如廁時，掩蓋一下聲音

Never really heard anyone use it in the men's office toilet.

在男廁裡是沒有聽過有人用過啦

But apparently, it's almost always using in the women's toilet.

但好像在女廁裡總會有人用

I guess women are more embarrassed to let others hear their, uh, noises.

我想女性們可能對他們所發出的，呃，聲音，比較害羞

I heard about this - this is a global salon. Let's go inside and check it out.

我有聽過這個，這是個世界沙龍。我們進去裡面看看！

Oh, wow. It's nice to see the employees working on their English skills.

哇，看到員工在學習增進英文能力真的很棒

And so apparently, they even have this open space here for everyone to use, which is nice.

他們甚至有這個開放空間給所有人使用，真的不錯

Look, man, Emi has a sweet office.

你看，Emi的辦公室真的很棒

They shouldn't have let me just walk around by myself this whole entire time.

他們不應該讓我這樣走來走去

Finally, lunchtime.

終於到了午餐時間

She's asking coworkers if they want to go to lunch together.

她在問同事要不要一起去吃午餐

You probably don't notice but she's using "keigo", which is a polite form in Japanese.

你可能沒有察覺到，但她在使用的是『keigo』，是日文裡的敬語

So I'm guessing that Emi's talking to her coworkers that are more senior than her, called "sempai", which makes her the "kohai"

所以我猜Emi正在跟較為資深的同事講話，叫做『sempai』，而她則是他們的『kohai』

and it's probably one of the more difficult things to master for non-Japanese working in a Japanese office.

而這可能是對非日本人來說，在日本辦公室裡比較困難掌握的事情

Oh, in Japan, it's not only polite to hold the open elevator button for everyone to get out, but sometimes,

噢，在日本按著按鈕讓大家先出去不僅僅是一種禮貌

people will go back and forth on who'll hold the elevator open,

有時候大家還會來回搶著按那個按鈕

as it's another way to earn those office respect points.

而這是另一種贏得好感分的方法

So the first bar has this bakery,

第一個吧台有這個麵包店

and we have salads over there,

而我們在那邊有沙拉

and if you're an employee here, you get a discount.

如果你是這裡的員工的話，會有折扣

So I guess we get to choose all the bread that we want.

我想我們可以選擇想要的麵包

So I found out that all the food sold at this bakery is made in the building by the company's subsidiary called Pasona Heartful.

我發現在這麵包店販賣的所有食物，是由這間公司的子公司Pasona Heartful製作的

They employ workers and artists with disabilities and their philosophy is "talent knows no handicap", which I think is pretty cool.

他們雇用有身心障礙的員工跟藝術家，而他們的哲學是「才華無關障礙」，我覺得很酷

They even created a lot of the art seen throughout the office, including the Olympic designs we saw at the elevator earlier today.

他們還在整個公司裡製作了許多藝術佈置，像是我們今天稍早看到的奧林匹雅主題設計

And what's wonderful is that the first floor cafeteria area is open to the public.

很棒的是，一樓的餐廳是開放給大眾的

So if any of you decide to visit the office, I definitely recommend getting the shio butter pan -

所以如果你們任何人想要來參觀辦公室，我真的很推薦你們吃奶油鹽麵包

it's amazing.

真的超驚豔

Something else you may not know if you've never seen it before -

有些可能是你沒看過就不會知道的東西

the wet towels provided with the food is to wipe your hands before you eat.

像是濕紙巾會跟食物一起送上來，讓你可以在吃東西之前擦手

Just wanted to mention it as many countries don't offer wet towels.

我提到這個，是因為有很多國家不會提供濕紙巾

Another thing that might surprise you is that everyone's eating their salad with chopsticks.

另一個可能會讓你感到驚訝的是，大家都用筷子吃沙拉

And when you finish, you've got to clean up your garbage and put away your trays or plates if they have any.

當你吃完後，你要清理垃圾，並且把餐盤放回去

This is also common in Japanese fast food joints like McDonald's or soba shops.

這在日本速食店，像是麥當勞或是蕎麥麵店，都蠻常見的

Anyway, I've gotten used to all these since I've been in Japan for so long.

總之因為我已經待在日本很久了，所以對這些都很習慣

But what do you think about the wet towels, salad chopsticks or even cleaning up after yourself?

但你對這些濕紙巾、沙拉用筷、甚至是自行清理的動作，有什麼看法嗎？

They have a farm up here and I gonna check it out.

他們有一個小牧場，我必須要來參觀

So we have a few more minutes before Emi has to go back to the office.

我們在Emi要回去辦公室之前還有一點時間

But Emi asked me if I wanted to check out the farm.

Emi問我要不要來參觀牧場

Yeah, you heard me - a real deal farm in the office.

對，你沒聽錯，一個在辦公大樓裡的牧場

I was pretty surprised myself.

我個人是蠻驚訝的

Apparently, it's open to the public so if you want to take your kids and pet the animals, it's all good.

它是對外開放的，所以如果你想要帶小孩來見見動物，是沒問題的

I personally prefer to see animals in their natural habitat.

我自己比較喜歡在大自然裡看到動物

But, to each their own.

但人各有所好囉

You can actually come up here during your break time and feed animals.

你真的可以在休息時間來這邊，然後餵餵動物

I mean, she's like pretty lucky to be here working for this company cos you don't get a lot of Japanese companies this progressive or like, offering so many services.

我真的覺得他能在這間公司工作很幸運，因為沒有那麼多日本公司會這麼開明，或是提供這麼多服務

But I do have allergies, so I'm gotta keep my mask on.

但我會過敏，所以我必須戴上口罩

Oh, and they even have fierce-looking owls.

噢，他們還有看起來很兇的貓頭鷹

Oh, and just in case you're wondering about the animals' well-being, I'm told the facility provides 24-hour ventilation,

喔，如果你對這些動物的健康有些疑惑的話，服務人員告訴我他們提供24小時通風系統

the animals are returned to an outside farm every few months,

每幾個月動物就會回到外面的農場

and owls are allowed to fly around the entire floor in the evenings.

然後貓頭鷹在晚上是能夠在整個樓層到處飛的

That was actually pretty cool.

那真的很酷

So in the afternoon, she has several meetings packed into her schedule.

在下午她有幾個會議排進時程表裡

She has a health check.

她做了一個健康檢查

There's a difference between "genko" and "kenko". "Genko" check, not health check.

『genko』跟『kenko』不太一樣，是『genko』檢查、不是健康檢查

So basically, her senpai reviews a document she made and provides feedback to finalize it.

所以基本上，她的前輩在看她寫的文件草稿，並提供一些回饋來作最後確認

Awaji Island is an island in the southwestern part of Japan.

淡路島是在日本西南方的一個島嶼

Emi's currently working on a project there so she has regular video conferences with that office.

Emi負責那邊的一個專案，所以她常跟那邊的辦公室有定期的視訊會議

5:52 right now. It's not even six and people are already starting to head out.

現在是5:52，還不到6點人們就開始起身準備離開了

I mean, if you look around, there's still people that are working, obviously.

我的意思是，如果你環顧一下辦公室，還是有人在工作啦

But I think we're heading out now.

但我想現在我們要離開了

I guess she's done.

她應該結束工作了

In old school Japanese companies, it would have been death to leave the office before your superiors.

在比較傳統的日本公司，完全不可能在你主管之前離開

In fact, I have several friends working in those type of offices, and they're always working late.

事實上我有好幾個朋友在那種公司工作，他們總會晚下班

Seems like Emi's office is way more flexible, and lets you leave when you finish your work for the day.

看起來Emi的公司更有彈性，讓你在結束工作後就能離開

Make sense, right?

完全合理，對吧？

Apparently the restaurant in the basement floor is free for employees.

員工在地下一樓的餐廳用餐是完全免費的

That's amazing, isn't it?

那真的很棒，對吧？

And you guys know, I love free.

你們都知道，我最喜歡免費的東西啦

I don't think the beer is free though.

但我想啤酒應該不是免費的

So all four women work in the same company.

這四位女性都在同公司工作

But two of them work in sales on a completely different floor.

但其中兩位是在銷售部門，在完全不同的樓層

They all met a few years back during company training.

他們在前幾年公司訓練的時候認識的

See, when new grads enter a company for the first time, they're required to go through a formal company training called "kenshuu" in Japanese.

當新的畢業生第一次加入一個公司，他們必須經歷一個正式公司訓練，在日文裡叫做『kenshuu』

It's different with each company but in their case, they actually had an induction ceremony,

每個公司都不一樣，但是他們是有入社儀式的

spent one week off-site together, and

在公司之外的地方相處一個星期

had an additional two and a half months of training at the office.

然後在辦公室花另外兩個半月的時間進行訓練

This is like how it's supposed to be right?

應該就是要這樣，對吧？

A regular work day in Japan.

在日本一個平凡的工作天

Let me know what you guys think in the comments.

留言讓我知道你們的想法

If you thought there was anything that like, stood out to you,

如果你覺得有什麼事情對你來說，是非常不同的

or that you thought was weird

或是你覺得很怪