…it really might be better to say nothing. If your boss likes to tick people off in public, he or she could be damaging more than morale. Research suggests that witnessing rudeness in the workplace could lead to mistakes and poor performance.
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posted 13/07/2010
Being regularly stuck at your desk long after normal working hours can be a drag, no matter how much you love your job, and certainly doesn’t do much for your social or family life. But a new study shows that workers putting in too many extra hours in the office may be more likely to develop heart problems.
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posted 14/05/2010
A senior car worker for Toyota died from working too much overtime a Japanese labour bureau has found.
The 45 year old man was one of Toyotas most senior engineers and had been working on a new hybrid car at the time of his death.
Having worked on average more the 80 hours of overtime a month in the two months preceding his death, regularly worked nights and weekends and travelled extensively overseas, the man was found dead in his Tokyo home from ischaemia the day before the car was to be premiered at a show in Detroit.
Japan has one of the worst records for long working hours and last year there were 142 documented cases of “karoshi” – death from excessive work
Read more at the Guardian: Senior Toyota engineer died of overwork
posted 10/07/2008
You know those unpleasant, macho TV ads we’ve had in recent years, where employees chug super-strength cold remedies in order to drag themselves to their desks, thus avoiding the sack for being a sniffly wimp?
Well, here’s a nice antidote to them from retro syrup makers Covonia, whose latest PR survey of 4,000 office staff shows that in real life, nobody wants a mucus trooper on the desk next to them. Read more…
posted 21/11/2007
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