Japanese staff could be forced to take holiday

Decades after ‘karoshi’ – death from overwork – entered the Japanese vocabulary; their workers are being pushed away from the desk and onto vacation.

In Japan, 2,323 suicides a year are linked to work and overwork, with most workers taking less than half of their annual holiday. 16% took no paid holiday at all. The highest number of work-related suicides recorded was 2,689 in 2011.