It’s 1 PM on a beautiful Saturday afternoon. A few months back you told your editor you would write an essay on overwork for an upcoming issue of the magazine at which you’re employed.

Here’s why we can’t stop doing it—and what might help. There’s plenty of evidence that overwork is damaging to our health and the health of our organizations. Yet powerful internal and ...

Using longitudinal data of Japanese workers, this study investigates the relationship between overwork and mental health. Conventional labor supply theory assumes that people allocate their hours of ...

author of Chained to the Desk in a Hybrid World: A Guide to Balance. There is no question that many companies overwork their employees, and this is well documented. Workweeks of sixty, eighty ...

A total of 497 suicides of workers who developed mental illness due to stress from work were recognized as caused by overwork between fiscal 2012 and fiscal 2017, according to the ministry.

Labour union activism and consequential legislation ensured the rights of workers to prevent exploitation through overwork.

The health ministry has found widespread examples of overwork and work-related stress in the entertainment and health care industries, it said in its 2024 white paper on karōshi (death from ...

In recent years, the demanding work culture of multinational corporations (MNCs) has sparked concerns over its impact on employee health and well-being. With nearly two decades of experience in ...

Incoming PNG representative coaches Tahnee Norris and Jason Demetriou have named their representative sides in their new roles, selecting their squads for the upcoming Prime Minister’s XIII ...

Her suicide was recognized as an “industrial accident,” and it heightened calls for Japan to more seriously address the issue of “karoshi” (death from overwork). Takahashi has been a key ...

The workload nearly destroyed me. I was expecting that Thursday in February to be a normal day at work. I hadn't expected to be lying on the office floor thinking that I needed to quit my ...

It is unclear if the cases were directly linked to overwork, but they caused outraged netizens to debate 996 culture and the "dark side" of working at some of the country's most acclaimed firms.