Submitted 1 year ago by stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to workreform@lemmy.world
https://unseen-japan.com/karoshi-death-overwork-kobe/
A medical resident worked 207 hours of overtime in a month. His case highlights Japan's continuing problem with karoshi - death by overwork.
Holy shit, that’s roughly 7 hours across 30 days, that’s insane if they were already working 8 hour shifts every normal work day.
Holy shit. 15 hour shifts aren’t uncommon at all where I’m from. No wonder we placed well below Japan on work-life balance statistics.
The fact that there are places where people legitimately only work 8 hours a day is kind of mind blowing, thinking about it.
Where do you live if you don’t mind saying? That blows my mind the other way.
Don’t worry, that’s being actively eroded. People cost too much to hire, at least according to the businesses, so they’re just gonna find ways to make less people work more and more.
Woof. Time for revolution.
Where are you from?
Additionally, the story said he had no days off since February.
Karoushi, 過労死, the wet dream of CEOs everywhere.
Not just Japan. China has a similar problem.
The term “996” coined in China refers to the idea of working 12-hour shifts from 9am to 9pm six days a week.
I haven't been able to find much information (in English,anyway) on the labor movement in Japan. The pervasiveness of unpaid overtime and stagnant wages leads me to wonder if it's moribund?
1984@lemmy.today 1 year ago
Americans are like, shit what a rookie, I work 250 hours. This makes me a winner!
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I remember more than once someone on Reddit bragging about how they worked 90 hours a week. I’m like, dude, I wish I worked 10 hours a week.
1984@lemmy.today 1 year ago
Me too.
bob_wiley@lemmy.world 1 year ago
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I did 135 hour week once as a journalism intern. got fired because I didn’t do 140 (would walk to hotel, sleep 4 hours, wake up, walk back to field office - “wow,” you think, “what war was he covering?” and the answer is the war of an arts festival in northern england).
didn’t go back to journalism after that.
1984@lemmy.today 1 year ago
Why did you work that much?
Sir_Simon_Spamalot@lemmy.world 1 year ago
What job was that, if I may ask?
transientDCer@lemdro.id 1 year ago
I’ve done it once when I worked for a consulting company, it was hell. The paycheck at the end of it almost made up for it though.