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uhyohyo90
Joined: 11 May 2009 Posts: 1 Location: Japan
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Posted: Sun May 24, 2009 3:10 pm Post subject: Is Japanese Businessman a Working bee? |
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In general, Japanese businessman works for 170 hours a month and for 2000 hours a year. It is said that �Karoshi (Death from overwork)� is one of the most important problem in Japan. But, technology of other country are developing recently. I think Japanese isn�t possible to defeated.
Does Japanese businessman work still too much? I want to hear opinion of person in other countries. |
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Bob S.
Joined: 29 Apr 2004 Posts: 1767 Location: So. Cal
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Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 11:04 am Post subject: |
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2000 hours per years is normal. That is just 8 hours a day for 5 days each week. Karoshi comes from 2 hours of sleep each night for 6 or 7 nights each week, smoking, and living off of beer, one-shot ozeki, and cup noodles every day. Work smarter, not harder. _________________ "It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood." -- Karl Popper |
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Julesinjapan
Joined: 31 May 2009 Posts: 3 Location: Kyoto
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Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2009 8:22 pm Post subject: |
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I think Japanese business men spend a lot of time in their offices, but they're not necessarily working all the time. |
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peterteacher
Joined: 13 Apr 2009 Posts: 86 Location: Australia
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Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2009 12:25 am Post subject: |
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I think Japanese businesses will improve when people realise that working 7 productive hours a day is much more efficient than working 16 hours a day when you can't do anything well because of a chronic lack of sleep!
That goes for a lot of other countries too!
A few hours of really good work is a lot better than many hours of bad work. _________________ Try some mini, on-line adventure games to help your English at: www.gameenglish.com |
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