God knows that my job isn’t perfect. Lately, I’ve been showing up to the office an hour early and working though lunches in order to meet a couple of mid-July project deadlines. I’m not a morning person, so rolling out of bed before 6 am feels like a perverse form of torture that I’m inflicting on myself every morning.
But hey, at least I’m not this guy. A 45-year old Japanese man, who was a lead engineer for Toyota, died in 2006 from overwork (or heart disease caused by working too many hours, a Japanese court recently ruled). This man apparently averaged 80 hours OF OVERTIME per week, which by my calculation would be 120 hours of work every week. Assuming he had no commute, didn’t eat, didn’t spend any time with family or friends – basically didn’t doing anything other than work and sleep - it would leave him a solid 6.8 hours of sleep per day.
The Japanese even have a word for death by overworking: Karoshi
Knowledge is power.
Thursday, July 10, 2008
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