Source: Positive News
Japan faces a ‘death by overwork’ problem. What is being done?
In Japan, overwork is such an ingrained part of life that there is a word to describe dying from it: karoshi. The country began taking steps to tackle its workplace culture after a 24-year-old advertising firm employee, Matsuri Takahashi, killed herself in 2015.
She had clocked up more than 100 hours’ overtime in the months before her death.In its first ever white paper on karoshi, published in 2016, the government said that one in five employees were…
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