This is a yuge problem in Japan.noddy wrote:http://www.smh.com.au/business/workplac ... yvgiy.html
sometimes taking your communal culture seriously isnt the best.A Japanese journalist's gruelling work schedule - including 159 hours of overtime and just two days off in a single month - triggered the heart failure that killed her at the age of 31.
Labour regulators ruled that Miwa Sado's death was due to "karoshi" - the Japanese word for a death due to overwork
their are environments like this in australia but i suspect they are easier to walk away from.
You're correct that it is more difficult to walk away from due to social and cultural norms.
Someone so sleep deprived is not creative, efficient, or productive.
And yet the politicians and bureaucrats seem unable to see a way to address the below replacement birthrate.