IDG Contributor Network: Stop before your employees drop

I was stunned by a recent headline about a Japanese woman who died from karoshi: death from overwork. The article reported that Miwa Sado, a 31-year-old journalist who was covering elections, logged 159 hours of overtime in just one month before succumbing to heart failure. The article went on to say more than 2,000 Japanese workers committed suicide because of work-related stress from January to March of 2016. It is amazing this story came from the same country that popularized the LEAN managem