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The country working itself to death
March 7, 2015 9:39am
Around 4.74 million people in Japan work more than 60 hours per week.
FRANK CHUNG and AAPnews.com.au
IN this country, people are literally working themselves to death.
Every year, hundreds of overstressed Japanese workers succumb to heart attack, stroke or suicide due to a lack of work-life balance.
The problem, which first rose to prominence in the 1980s, has become so bad it even has its own name: karoshi. Death by overwork.
Last week, a British expat living in Tokyo going by the handle ‘Stu in Japan’ posted a video on YouTube titled ‘A week in the life of a Tokyo salary man .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po8IPh64rVM ’.
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The video diary documented a typical 80-hour week during his financial services company’s “busy season” from January to March — 13-hour days for six days a week, leaving the office after 11pm every night, with barely time to squeeze in dinner.
It was a humorous look at a serious issue.
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March 7, 2015 9:39am
Around 4.74 million people in Japan work more than 60 hours per week.
FRANK CHUNG and AAPnews.com.au
IN this country, people are literally working themselves to death.
Every year, hundreds of overstressed Japanese workers succumb to heart attack, stroke or suicide due to a lack of work-life balance.
The problem, which first rose to prominence in the 1980s, has become so bad it even has its own name: karoshi. Death by overwork.
Last week, a British expat living in Tokyo going by the handle ‘Stu in Japan’ posted a video on YouTube titled ‘A week in the life of a Tokyo salary man .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po8IPh64rVM ’.
INSERT: embed
The video diary documented a typical 80-hour week during his financial services company’s “busy season” from January to March — 13-hour days for six days a week, leaving the office after 11pm every night, with barely time to squeeze in dinner.
It was a humorous look at a serious issue.
Continued: http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=125809596
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