A medical resident worked 207 hours of overtime in a month. His case highlights Japan’s continuing problem with karoshi - death by overwork.
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.
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.
Where do you live if you don’t mind saying? That blows my mind the other way.