Hi, I am Bea Santiago and this is Clocking In Across Time Zones, the show where we compare what a working day actually feels like in different countries, not what the HR handbook says. I ran night-shift teams in Manila for six years, and I thought I understood office life until I started talking to people in other cities. This week my co-host is Kenji, a marketing manager in Tokyo, and our topic is deceptively simple: can you leave before your boss does. In Manila, my people walked out at six on the dot. In Tokyo, Kenji says the first person to stand up is remembered for years. We get into the Tokyo goodbye, the three kinds of overtime, and what really happens to the person who breaks the rule. We also have voice messages from Lagos, Berlin and Dubai. You are listening on Witspeak Podcasts.