Making a fetish of overwork bodes ill for productivity
Extra hours are spent reversing poor decisions and smoothing ruffled feathers
When engineers talk about ‘asset integrity’, what they usually refer to is the good practice of servicing and repairing equipment before it breaks. Companies that use a lot of machinery take this very seriously; companies that mostly just use people rarely do.
Although to my knowledge no other nation than Japan has a word for death by overwork - karoshi - we probably need one. For while it is tempting to imagine the ...