At the job fair for college students some presenters jokingly mentioned a
Japanese drama in which a company had a special department full of incompetent
or inefficient employees. The company had decided to place them in that
special department instead of firing them. Unfortunately I don't remember the
name of the department nor the name of the TV drama.

Is there a common name for such a department? Does it really exist in real
world Japanese companies?
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A department in a company where unproductive employees are transferred to instead of being fired
That "department" is most commonly called 「[窓際部署]{まどぎわぶしょ}」 even though it is
never an "official" department.

The word 「[窓際]{まどぎわ}」 means "by the window" and it is used because the
employees placed in the above mentioned "department" have little to do except
looking out the window all day every day.

Those employees, by the way, are commonly called 「窓際[族]{ぞく}」.
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