Dentsu getting sued in Japan for illegal over time resulting in an employee suicide. This girl was doing 100 hours of over time per week! Wonder who the client was...

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And here I was about to complain publicly about some weekend assignment. Guess I'll just keep it to myself.

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Did she commit suicide? I thought she literally died from overwork

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140 hour weeks? Wow

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It was 100 hours of overtime per month if that puts it in context https://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/12/28/business/dentsu-japan-resignation-employee-suicide.html

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Welcome to 6 months ago OP

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There's literally only 168 hours in a full week. That leaves 4 hours per day to commute/sleep assuming she was working weekends too.

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Oh! Ha. Disregard my comment then...

Oh dear, I work more than her on an average week

Oops. Ok sorry I'm fake news apparently lol. Still shit cray. I saw it earlier today because Dentsu is formally going to court for it even though it happened last year

Yeah the CEO or equivalent stepped down as a gesture of apology

This whole "work a ton of hours just because" mentality needs to die. It's perfectly easy to be very productive in a regular work day's hours.

Bout to be me in a couple years(overworked in Japan, not dead), good thing I worked at CPB so I've got some experience in this.

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