Japan poll details ‘death from overwork’
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MORE than one in five Japanese companies have employees who work such long hours they are at serious risk of death, according to a new government survey into the country’s notoriously strenuous working culture.
Hundreds of deaths related to overwork — from strokes to suicide — are reported every year in Japan, along with a host of serious health problems.
The survey was part of Japan’s first white paper on “karoshi,” or death from overwork.
While the popular image of Japanese salarymen toiling long hours before taking the last train home is changing, many still spend far more hours at the workplace than counterparts in other modern economies.
According to the paper, 22.7 percent of companies polled between December 2015 and January 2016 said some of their employees logged more than 80 hours of overtime a month — the official threshold at which the prospect of death from work becomes serious.
The report added that approximately 21.3 percent of Japanese employees work 49 or more hours each week on average, well above the 16.4 percent reported in the US, 12.5 percent in Britain and 10.4 in France.
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