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A medical resident worked 207 hours of overtime in a month. His case highlights Japan's continuing problem with karoshi - death by overwork.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Holy shit, that's roughly 7 hours across 30 days, that's insane if they were already working 8 hour shifts every normal work day.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

Holy shit. 15-18 hour shifts aren't uncommon at all where I'm from. No wonder we placed well below Japan on work-life balance statistics.

The fact that there are places where people legitimately only work 8 hours a day is kind of mind blowing, thinking about it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Woof. Time for revolution.

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