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A doctor in Japan killed himself after working 200 hours overtime in a month, family says, highlighting the country's overwork epidemic
A 26-year-old resident doctor in Japan died by suicide after developing depression from being overw…
Joshua Zitser
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Here's more evidence that even $100,000 starting salaries can't persuade graduates to sign up to Wall Street's grueling hours
Graduates told the New York Times that a long-term career in investment banking isn't an attractive…
Stephen Jones
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Working overtime every day can increase your risk of early death, a UN report finds
A study found that working 55 hours or more every week - or 11 hours a working day - led to 745,194…
Kelsie Sandoval
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TikTok's toxic '996' culture is forcing UK employees out the door and making those who remain wonder every week 'who has been fired, who has quit': FT
Current and former employees said they were often required to work a full day in the UK and then si…
Weilun Soon
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South Korean e-commerce giant Coupang just had a record-breaking IPO, but its delivery workers keep dying
The 43-year-old man was the second Coupang courier to die this month. This comes as the South Korea…
Cheryl Teh
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Elon Musk says he works 120 hours a week and doesn't leave the factory for days at a time - but experts say that kind of work ethic is dangerous
Silicon Valley has come under fire for reportedly glorifying overwork, but, judging from his interv…
Áine Cain
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Overworked junior bankers at JPMorgan are getting someone to check on their well-being
JPMorgan has created a role charged with supporting the well-being of junior bankers in response to…
Nora Redmond
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An HSBC manager has vowed to stop putting up with 's*** at work' after having a heart attack
HSBC IT program manager Jonathan Frostick said his he was working too much and sleeping poorly, in …
Grace Dean
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Thousands of Chinese workers reveal their hours as part of a campaign to 'boycott' the grueling '996' corporate culture
996 stands for 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week. These long hours were initially prevalent in tech…
Stephen Jones,Huileng Tan
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A South Korean mailman got a prison sentence for throwing out 16,000 pieces of mail. He said he was 'overworked.'
A Korean mailman was sentenced to six months in prison for discarding 16,000 pieces of mail. He bla…
Joshua Zitser
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How overworked Americans killed RadioShack
"In 1979 the average worker put in 1,687 hours a year, according to the Economic Policy Institute, …
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4 Time Management Tips For The Chronically Overworked
For instance, some people are early birds while others work best as night owls. A lot of this comes…
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4 Time Management Tips For The Chronically Overworked
For instance, some people are early birds while others work best as night owls. A lot of this comes…
Vivian Giang
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Japan's toxic culture of overwork drove this 31-year-old woman to death - and it looks like there's no end in sight
"Karoshi is a manifestation of weak management skills and low productivity, so firms have a great o…
Alexandra Ma
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If you answer work emails in your leisure hours, here's some data showing why you should stop
Australian academics studied email culture among university workers. They found consistently replyi…
Stephen Jones
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A 70-hour-week regimen 'far too ambitious' say medical experts
Youths should learn to balance hard work with a healthy diet, proper sleep and timely exercise, doc…
PTI
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Japan's overworking problem: A probe into 24,000 Japanese workplaces revealed that 37% had violated overtime laws
Employees at 8,904 of the workplaces surveyed said they were working more than 80 hours of overtime…
Matthew Loh
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Overworking can be contagious. Here are 3 tips for keeping up with a workaholic colleague without burning out, according to a careers expert.
Whether they are responding to messages in seconds or working from their vacation, the workaholic i…