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Re:Tokyo subway’s humble duct-tape typographer by pier25 on Sunday July 28, 2019 @01:39PM (#20548784)
> overworking

On average, Japanese work as much as Canadians or Spaniards and generally below the US.

Mexico has been on one of the top spots for years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_average_annual_labor_h...

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Re:Tokyo subway’s humble duct-tape typographer by pixelcort on Sunday July 28, 2019 @07:36PM (#20550427)
Isn't this distorted by the amount of unreported overtime? Anecdotally many of my friends in Japan work overtime but don't report it, or report a smaller overtime amount.
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Re:Tokyo subway’s humble duct-tape typographer by mnky9800n on Sunday July 28, 2019 @11:48PM (#20551380)
Having worked in Japan and USA, Japanese seem more dedicated to taking a holiday when they have one, also keeping working hours. All my jobs were academic though so I don't know for companies.
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