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by red-iron-pine 1052 days ago
> It's not unheard of that in certain corporate environments people work 60-80 hours a week

> certain corporate environments

it happens, both in terms of company, and situation (e.g. crunch weeks), but that ain't the entire country all the time the way it is in Japan.

I recall a study about how the average workday in Japan was peaking at 13 hours, and the corporate execs were worrying that it was starting to trend down. Similar approaches like 996 are a thing in China, too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/996_working_hour_system

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