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Being Overworked to the Extreme

Labor bureau: Japanese man, 45, died of overwork

By JAY ALABASTER, Associated Press Writer

A Japanese labor bureau has ruled that one of Toyota’s top car engineers died from working too many hours, the latest in a string of such findings in a nation where extraordinarily long hours for some employees has long been the norm. For the entire article go to Yahoo.com

This is being overworked to the extreme. You can interview all day, review the best resume, run careful background checks on your employment candidates, but there is no accounting for the affect of stress on someone’s health and well being.

Sometimes reference checks will help define how someone deals under stress. In the Corra Reference questions group we ask how someone behaves under stress and pressure situations. We try to obtain from the reference as detailed a response as we can.

Nevertheless, all that being said, it is something else when some poor soul drops dead because he was stressed out over working too hard. If this isn’t a sign that something may be wrong when people have no time to chill out, then I would be hard pressed to think what is. Frankly, I’m surprised we don’t see more of it, or at least people snapping out in assorted but self-destructive ways in a desperate effort to relieve the pressure for their jobs.

On the other hand, I hope this is not a trend. On the self-centered side, imagine the negative impact it will have on health insurance. Rates are bad enough. Dropping dead on the job is not about to improve the health insurance costs any. On the more universal approach, it’s just a pity that this is the consequence for caring too much. At least for this poor guy.

So take it easy out there. Life is short enough without hastening the end game.

Check them out before you hire. Call Corra.

By Gordon Basichis

Gordon Basichis is the Co-Founder of Corra Group, specializing in pre-employment background checks and corporate research. He has been a marketing and media executive and has worked in the entertainment industry, the financial, health care and technology sectors. He is the author of the best selling Beautiful Bad Girl, The Vicki Morgan Story, a non-fiction novel that helped define exotic sexuality in the late twentieth century. He is the author of the Constant Travellers and has recently completed a new book, The Guys Who Spied for China, dealing with Chinese Espionage in the United States. He has been a journalist for several newspapers and is a screenwriter and producer.