Guinness World Record Book recognized Ms Yasuko Tamaki, who is working for Sunco Industries Co. Ltd. Osaka, Japan, as the oldest office manager in the world.
Yasuko started working for Sunco Industries in 1956 at the age of 25 and has been working for 65 years even after the company’s official retirement age (55). Sunco is a family-owned trading company specialized in screws (millions of different kinds). Yasuko worked with all three generations of the owner-CEOs.
Yasuko gets up at 5:00 AM and do some yoga stretch and then go to her office every day. As a manager, Yasuko has been taking care of many clients utilizing PC and Excel & Word. “The job is”, Yasuko says, “to help someone or to be useful for something. We should remember it even when we just clean up the office”.