A medical resident worked 207 hours of overtime in a month. His case highlights Japan’s continuing problem with karoshi - death by overwork.

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    1 year ago

    Holy shit. 15-18 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.

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      1 year ago

      Where do you live if you don’t mind saying? That blows my mind the other way.

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        Colombia. Solidly placed among the worst countries in the world in terms of work-life balance.

        I have a decent job and I don’t work that much, but I’m basically a freelancer, so that’s already pretty different.

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      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.