Karoshi: Death by overwork

Karoshi? 労 死: DEATH OF WORK OVERLOAD

Carlos Mora Vanegas

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Many companies facing critical situations and threaten their survival, their demand for an effort that generates worker fatigue, stress and health deteriorates prune, to cause death.

Japan is recognized as the nation of hard work and no rest. They are the creators of the concept of death from overwork or as you know them Karoshi

The first recorded instance of kar? Shi was reported in 1969 when an employee of the packaging department of a large newspaper company in Japan died of a heart attack at the age of 29 years. Describes a fairly common phenomenon in the workplace and in the last two decades has sounded the alarm and labor

As we review www.kirainet.com/ After the war Japan quickly recovered and became the second largest economy in less than three decades, there are many reasons that helped Japan out of the hole so quickly, one of them is the tremendous effort made by the Japanese work best to overcome poverty. At the end of the 60 working days of 12 or more hours were the most normal. In 1969 came the first case of "karoshi?, A worker under 30 years who died suddenly following a stroke after taking more than 40 working days in a row with little rest.

The problem was accentuated during the second cycle in the 80 crecimento when executives working under stress began to die suddenly and unexpectedly in their jobs. Today the ministry of labor statistics made public deaths "karoshi?. In recent years the average is 1,000 deaths by "karoshi? (Sudden death from overwork) and the total of deaths from causes related to stress / overwork rises to 10,000 a year. Approximately one third of the annual number of suicides in Japan.

It is estimated that more than 10,000 Japanese die each year from karoshi. The death is sudden and occurs karoshi cerebral hemorrhage or cardiac or respiratory failure due to excessive fatigue that produces high pressure and arterial stiffness. People most likely have between 40 and 50 years, and over half are executives, office workers and government officials. The karoshi has shown that so-called "Japanese miracle?, Has very little short of miraculous and a lot of exploitation What is Karoshi?, About it points us / usuarios.lycos.es the karoshi, death from overwork , is the great aberration of the last years of the twentieth and early twenty-first. The work has enslaved so some people who come to work to stop living. Some of these trabajoadictos as the balladeer wonder, "What will be equal death / my pitiful life / more work because if I die?

Fernando tells us? Areas Solis, who according to the National Defense Council for Victims of Karoshi, consisting of a group of lawyers primarily in Tokyo, the problem affects all groups of workers. The deaths have occurred in all types of industries, from car assembly plants to fast food restaurants and banks. The Council considers that the basic cause of these deaths are to be found in the Japanese corporate governance system and rejects suggestions that the workers themselves are responsible for his death.

An important factor to succumb to karoshi is the excessive number of hours of work. Japanese workers work 400 hours more than the French and Germans. A report of the Council made a few years ago, pointed and verifications need for measures to remedy the excess physical and mental stress

We add lawaloca.com / node to at least 147 people died in Japan during 2006, due to "karoshi", the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare of the country. And they are looking for measures to prevent this from being a long-term public health problem.

In addition 66 people committed suicide or tried to kill him for reasons related to work pressure or work beyond their hours, which is a record in Japan, according to Kyodo news agency picked. In total, 355 workers are to receive state compensation from the Japanese government for having suffered problems or illnesses caused by overwork, among them cases of strokes and heart attacks. Of those affected, 25 percent work in the transportation and telecommunications, according to informe.Un Health Ministry spokesman criticized the fact that many Japanese "working under high pressure and results required of them without receiving sufficient support from the company. "Moreover, during the past fiscal year 819 workers demanded financial compensation from the Government due to mental problems resulting from overwork, which represents an increase of 25 percent compared to the statistics last fiscal year. Finally, 205 of these claims were approved, 61 percent more than in the exercise of 2005.El Japanese government first recognized in 1992 that you can die from lack of rest for labor obligations, giving rise to the term "karoshi" that became synonymous around the world of death by overwork.

The Karoshi also occurs in China, as deia.com.es says life expectancy of the "brains" that run the Zhongguancun Science Park, north of Beijing and considered the "Silicon Valley" China-is 54 years and 70% risk of dying of "karoshi" (death from overwork), according to a study released yesterday by the portal "Chinanews."

The report of the Beijing Medical University notes that the life expectancy of "intellectuals" Chinese brushes 58, ten less than the national average, although the situation is worse in the working environment of Zhongguancun Science Park established in 1988 as first zone of high-tech development in the country. "70% of them could die of" karoshi "," warned an expert at this university, Huang Jianshi, referring to the phenomenon born in Japan and spread in China, where 600,000 die each year engaged in a fierce professional competition.

Known in Mandarin as "guolaosi" death by overwork in China affects mostly professional people between 30 and 60. According to a survey by the China Association of Clinical Laboratory Management, computer scientists and young executives, the guild of Zhongguancun, are more likely to die of "karoshi".

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