I was worried about the Holidays coming up and how we were all going to achieve work/life balance during the bustle of the next two months. Was someone going to drop work/life balance in our Christmas stockings? Or, maybe we’d win the lottery and wouldn’t have to work. That’s possible! But then I saw Tav [...]
Archive for the ‘Overtime’ Category
Death from Overwork
We previously wrote about the Toyota engineer who allegedly died from overwork. (In Japan, the phenomenon is called karoshi.) A Japanese labor bureau has recently ruled that excessive overtime was indeed the cause of his death and that his family is now eligible to collect benefits from his work insurance. This is still an incredibly [...]
Napping on the gorilla
This recent piece in BusinessWeek is about lawsuits involving overtime, but we can’t help but read it as an example of the 900-pound gorilla that’s in the room whenever our culture talks about work. Even though the article talks about “archaic workplace stereotypes”, it stops short of the real point: We still approach the flexible, [...]
Managing the Virtual Workforce Part 2:
Exercise Your Technology Savvy
Presented by Jody Thompson
February 23 at 1pm (EST)
