A new study has discovered that a culture of overwork is a key barrier to employees' use of paid leave and workplace flexibility policies. Workers are more likely to forgo using work/life policies in ...

In Japan, it's so common for employees to work themselves to death that there's a word for it: Karoshi.

The mother of a 24-year-old woman who committed suicide due to overwork on Dec 25, 2015, appealed to the public not to let the issue of karoshi (death due to overwork) be forgotten. Speaking at a news ...

FILE - In this Sunday, March 21, 2021 file photo, The company logo adorns a sign outside a Toyota dealership in Lakewood, Colo. Toyota announced Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2022, that it has settled a lawsuit ...

Although it’s great to be gainfully employed, more of us have felt the strings of exhaustion tug us over the past few years. According to a new study, employees say it’s mostly their “work friends” ...

Years ago, I met an American journalist who happened to be working for a Japanese media outlet. He liked his job, except for one peculiarity: though the office was in Washington, D.C., and the work ...

A person's cognitive and emotional health is at risk from long-term overwork, according to new research highlighting the changes to the brain caused by years of excessive work levels. Zacharie ...

This sentence is the only time I’ll use the word crunch. I’m going to say “overwork,” for the rest of this article, because that’s what it is. You — a very specific person, not The Industry As A Whole ...

Women are working more hours than they have in the past 40 years — and while this means more opportunity for some, it can also become a burden when combined with being a parent. Since 1977, women have ...

A slew of new research suggests that equality between the sexes, the rise of which seemed to stop in the ’90s like a three-day old helium balloon, is back in the ascendant. But it also suggests women ...