Canon Wants Employees Reproducing

Canon wants their workers to leave early (5:30) so they can make babies:

In a country where 12-hour workdays are common, the electronics giant has taken to letting its employees leave early twice a week for a rather unusual reason: to encourage them to have more babies.

Japan is in the midst of an unprecedented recession, so corporations are being asked to work toward fixing another major problem: the country’s low birthrate.

So they need to improve both productivity, and reproductivity.