apromiseby acompanyto anemployeethat they will have ajobfortheirwholeworkinglife:Lifetimeemploymentis a long-establishedpracticeinlargeJapanesefirms.(Definition oflifetime employmentfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)
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lifetime employmentThe company had previously had alifetimeemploymentpolicy but the mass layoffs caused a morale crisis.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It is accurate to say that the system oflifetimeemploymenthas partly - but not entirely - disintegrated in the face of economic pressures from globalization.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This track offered women a chance for advancement based on performance, rather thanlifetimeemployment.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Restricted migration,lifetimeemployment, egalitarian wage structures, and the insular nature of work units were intended by the state, at least in part, to curtail individual competition.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.They are said to be loyal to their organisations, enjoy the notion oflifetimeemploymentand prefer to be valued or needed as opposed to rewarded with recognition or money.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Tenure generally constitutes alifetimeemploymentagreement, and is generally thought of as a means of protecting faculty whose research may be socially, politically, or scientifically controversial.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Traditionally, under thelifetimeemploymentsystem, directors and department chiefs begin their careers as line employees of the company and work their way up the management hierarchy over time.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In addition, workers are now leery about accepting the implicit promise oflifetimeemploymentthat many larger firms formerly offered.From theCambridge English CorpusIndeed, in practice, bureaucrats were admitted to an exclusive club that could guaranteelifetimeemployment.From theCambridge English CorpusThe institutionalizedlifetimeemploymentsystem makes it very hard for firms to fire workers.From theCambridge English CorpusThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/lifetime-employment##
