When the chairman of a leading corporation such as Larsen & Toubro (L&T) suggests that employees should work 90-hour weeks,…
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Japanese employees are slowly embracing work-life balance. There has been a reduction in work hours, which is particularly notable among…
When Narayana Murthy, co-founder, Infosys had first talked of 70-hour workweeks, his statement hadn’t gone down well at all. There…
For about 17 years now, the office of Ernst & Young (EY) in Pune has been functioning without a state…
It took social-media backlash, following a grieving mother’s letter to her daughter’s employer, for Ernst & Young to finally issue…
When machines first entered the workplace, people feared they would erode human empathy, reducing workers to mere cogs in a…
The suicide of Matsuri Takahashi, 24, was recognised as a case of death from overwork, or karoshi.