Karoshi: Death from overwork

Breaktime!    (Image by Vectortoons)

If you’re working more than 80 hours per week, you might be heading straight for karoshi:  death from overwork.

In Japan, this is becoming more common than is generally admitted.  It took more than four years for news to break that a

national broadcaster named Miwa Sado had “suffered heart failure” after “logging 159 hours of overtime in the month leading up to her death.”

Because approximately 2,000 Japanese people per year are “killing themselves due to work-related stress,” the government is waging a campaign against such abuse.  This past May, it “named and shamed more than 300 companies that had breached labor laws.”

Resources

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/japanese-woman-dies-from-working-too-much-after-clocking-up-159-hours-overtime-in-a-month/ar-AAsYnMH?OCID=ansmsnnews11

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