Chitchat 20% Of Jap Workers Face Karoshi! Death From Overwork! Japs Cheaper, Better, Faster!

[JohnTan]

A fifth of the Japanese workforce faces the risk of death from overwork, according to a new government survey into the country's notoriously strenuous working culture.

Hundreds of deaths related to overwork -- from strokes, heart attacks and suicide -- are reported every year in Japan, along with a host of serious health problems, sparking lawsuits and calls to tackle the problem.

The survey was part of the nation's first white paper on "karoshi", or death from overwork, endorsed by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's cabinet on Friday.

While the popular image of Japanese salarymen toiling long hours for the company before taking the last train home is changing, many still spend far more hours in the office 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 each 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.

The survey concluded that Japanese employees also reported feeling high levels of stress related to their work, pushing officials to call on companies to improve working conditions.

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/one-five-japan-employees-face-death-overwork-report-050258347.html

 

[bodycells]

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Poor japs.. Are they born to think that work is their life? Something wrong with their culture and system.

 

[lifeafter41]

Re: 20% Of Jap Workers Face Karoshi! Death From Overwork! Japs Cheaper, Better, Faste

A fifth of the Japanese workforce faces the risk of death from overwork, according to a new government survey into the country's notoriously strenuous working culture.

Hundreds of deaths related to overwork -- from strokes, heart attacks and suicide -- are reported every year in Japan, along with a host of serious health problems, sparking lawsuits and calls to tackle the problem.

The survey was part of the nation's first white paper on "karoshi", or death from overwork, endorsed by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's cabinet on Friday.

While the popular image of Japanese salarymen toiling long hours for the company before taking the last train home is changing, many still spend far more hours in the office 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 each 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.

The survey concluded that Japanese employees also reported feeling high levels of stress related to their work, pushing officials to call on companies to improve working conditions.

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/one-five-japan-employees-face-death-overwork-report-050258347.html

The majority of family unit, only the husband is working, i.e., only source of income....hence the pressure to work and perform is far greater than those double income family. Adding to the fact that it's their culture to work a late as possible, and given that it's not right for them to leave the office before their boss do, further excabate the problem.

I have a few Japanese friends that really do look much older than their actual age. Definitely due to stress......

 

[chootchiew]

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The majority of family unit, only the husband is working, i.e., only source of income....hence the pressure to work and perform is far greater than those double income family. Adding to the fact that it's their culture to work a late as possible, and given that it's not right for them to leave the office before their boss do, further excabate the problem.

I have a few Japanese friends that really do look much older than their actual age. Definitely due to stress......

I guess that is their trade off for working hard and return home with an obedient wife.
Unfortunately for lower educated sinkie losers who husband work hard and return home with a kpkb wife .

 

[flatearther]

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I guess that is their trade off for working hard and return home with an obedient wife.

Yes, in Japan, if the wife is not submissive, it won't be long before divorce happens.
After that, the ex-wife's reputation will be ruined because her ex-husband will reveal her disobedience to his family, relatives and close friends, who will certainly trust him more, and the rumours will spread; also, it's unlikely that another man will be willing to become her husband, especially since it's unlikely that she herself will even want to marry again.

Which is why if a Japanese woman truly wants to become a wife, she will certainly try her very best to be submissive to her husband until death; and also apologize profusely (with deep bows) whenever she makes any serious mistake (which she will seldom make in the first place); because she knows that her husband will be honourable enough to reciprocate her service and love by also trying his best to take good care of her until death.

Unfortunately for lower educated sinkie losers who husband work hard and return home with a kpkb wife .

I dare say that such Sinkie wives (and of course, they are mostly Chinese) exist among all classes of families in Singapore, and regardless of the husband's education level. :(
This is why most of the younger generation of Sinkie men (those born from the late 1960s or early 1970s onwards, especially from the 1980s onwards), i.e. the sons of the baby-boomer Sinkies (those born from the late 1940s to the mid 1960s), are simply refusing to marry Sinkie women; they would rather marry foreign non-Angmoh women or simply decide to remain single until they die, simply because they would be happier without a Sinkie (and, therefore, very likely to be a bitchy feminist) wife domineering over them throughout their adult lives.

 

[winnipegjets]

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The PAP government had tried for decades to make sinkees adopt Japanese work ethic to no avail. If sinkees had become like Japanese, life would have been easier for the government, not that it is not so now, and enough sinkees die every year due to overwork.
Now, the PAP government has no clue on getting sinkapore to grow again despite importing 2.6 million foreigners.