Re:24 year old Ogilvy China employee dies from 'overwork'
by objclxt on Thursday May 16, 2013 @08:19AM
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Sudden cardiac arrest is quite common amongst the population as a whole (http://www.sca-aware.org/about-sca). What's rather uncommon is it to happen at a young age, but it's not unknown. In the four years I was at college two students suffered fatal arrests, both thought to be healthy with no prior symptoms.
Re:24 year old Ogilvy China employee dies from 'overwork'
by reeses on Thursday May 16, 2013 @05:18PM
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Interestingly, the only people (OK, two) who died on "death march" projects were offshore team members from India and China who came to the US specifically for the final 18-24h/day push to hit a launch date.
This is out of maybe 90 people working extreme hours on the two projects in question.
Re:24 year old Ogilvy China employee dies from 'overwork'
by kayoone on Thursday May 16, 2013 @08:15AM
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while you are right, these things just happen. I have just recently read about a 22 year old guy from Zynga and from a similiarly aged engineer that had the same thing happen to them. While chances to survive are extremly low, both guys are well now.
I read about it on HN and Reddit.
I just mean to say that China is an enormous country, and statistically these things are bound to happen. Does anyone else perceive this type of media coverage as part of a greater strategy of propagandizing or is the oversturation of news outlets just hungry for enything sensationalist to grab eyeballs? Both?