{"id":57034,"date":"2017-01-12T17:00:56","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T17:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ft_death_by_overwork_in_japan_exposes_dangers_of_overtime_culture\/"},"modified":"2017-01-12T17:00:56","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T17:00:56","slug":"ft_death_by_overwork_in_japan_exposes_dangers_of_overtime_culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=57034","title":{"rendered":"(FT) \u201d\u02dcDeath by overwork\u2019 in Japan exposes dangers of overtime culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a nation struggling to make sense of deflation, duty and the shock of a graduate trainee being worked to death at one of Japan\u2019s most prestigious companies, \u201cPremium Friday\u201d\u009d seems to provide a glimmer of hope.<\/p>\n<p>Following revelations of ruinously excessive overtime demands at Japan\u2019s largest advertising agency, Dentsu, the government wants bosses to order their overworked and under-slept employees home at 3pm on the last Friday of every month.<\/p>\n<p>Proponents of the idea, which include the powerful Keidanren business lobby, argue that workers could use the time for recuperative snoozing or enjoy more leisure activities and rev the economy out of deflation.<\/p>\n<p>It may not, say many labour experts, be quite that simple.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/982b1c46-d75b-11e6-944b-e7eb37a6aa8e\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a nation struggling to make sense of deflation, duty and the shock of a graduate trainee being worked to death at one of Japan\u2019s most prestigious companies, \u201cPremium Friday\u201d\u009d seems to provide a glimmer of hope. Following revelations of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=57034\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,201,589,149,168,104,133,337,597,129,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-asia","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-history","category-japan","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-psychology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}