“3am Meetings, No Sleep”: Japan PM Dismisses Work-life Balance | Vantage with Palki Sharma
Japan’s new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is rewriting the limits of work — literally starting her day at 3 AM. In a country already battling karoshi (death by overwork), her “sleep is optional” mantra is raising eyebrows. From Japan’s long work culture to the global gospel of hustle preached by Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Narayan Murthy, Jack Ma and others, extreme work hours may inspire some but exhaust nations. Hard work matters, yes — but burnout is real. So, where’s the line between ambition and self-destruction? Palki Sharma tells you.
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49 Comments
Stupid ….unhappy japan
Success is not monetary for everyone. Some chose simpler things in life and it's okay. For Elon Musk to be a triallonair there are atlest 100k people working and the cycle continues.
Resign her. She's crazy, think how she only sleep 2 hours a day, She's sleep deprived. That's Crazy Man.
With less working population and high pressure… This is obvious
Work is the opium of gaps
If she joins the Infosys after completion of her tenure, then that will not be very surprising!😂
For Japaneese client …we worked one year – Daily 14 to 18 hrs/daily (incl. Weekends) …& 24×7 available for communication 😮😮😢😢 in WeProg Indian ITCo…Horrible Culture… Entire Team Resigned just after 1 year…😢😢🙏🏻🙏🏻
Nutcase what else.. And what are you going to achieve in the end ?? A tired, unhealthy life ?? You can't take anything when you go up and no one is going to remember you also .. It would be as sorry and wasted life..
周回遅れのNews。午前３時になった理由は、野党の質問通告が夜になり、その回答が翌日の午前３時になったからです。つまり、野党がルールを守っていないことが原因です。これらはとっくに日本では情報として出ています。
Elon Musk said "the world doesn't change with 40 hours/week work pattern!"
My answer is … " Wake Up, Elon! The world has achieved aaaaaaaa lottttttt in these recent 50-100 years than what has been achieved in the of previous 200cr years ever since it's born"
It's ok for founders and leaders at the place of responsibility which pushes them to work with a deep seated contentment. But it is wrong to get others to be part of that..and employee is an employee.
What're these governments think we are Slaves ??
She compliment great MODIJI
Salve mentality ….
In the earlier centuries this was White versus the black, times have changed, it appears to be rich versus the poor ….
This is a clear indication these type of people do not believe in religion or civil culture, but operate on spirit of Mamom where it is greed to swallow as much wealth as fast as possible.
History is repeating itself, during the industrial revolution, when children were used as labour, till a day good prevailed and spoke of right for children to be educated.
nice Japan. Say no more to sleep.
creepie
In India, meetings are called at 1 am in the morning which goes on till 3am sometimes. PM Modi works 24×7 and 365 days a year.
This lady is crazy
Excellence can’t be achieved by force.
If someone works for their interest or passion, they don’t feel pain. Not everyone is good at everything, and they shouldn’t force themselves. Everyone has some interest or passion in something.
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As an Indian now working in Japan, I have immense respect and gratitude for Japan and their leadership.
I didn’t even had 0.1% of my current gratitude to my own country’s politicians.
Extremely blessed to live here. Plan on settling here too.
She needs to know that without rest, along with women discrimination, and extremely high costs, there is no way people will have children
What would you suggest as a policy change in response to this issue (working hours, overtime caps, leadership expectations)?
Depends on your strong DNA or your ancestral bloodlines strength to handle such kind of work life balances.
You change the world, im going back to bed and I'll check my stocks in the morning. Thanks for working so hard for my gains.
Maybe they're successful because they don't have to work lol. It's their business so they do it. If you can't sleep then mate, go and work like the ones who are ACTUALLY WORKING. Don't impose your views of 50 people on rest billions.
This new PM of Japan is a lapdog of the US. Her objective is to “build” Japan and disrupt trust with China to stall the China taiwan conflict
But this is wrong…3am meeting may be suitable to her but members there left with no choice….they had to forcefully struggle about their health
ALL THE HINDUES MUST LEAVE ALL THE ARAB COUNTRES IMMEDAITLY RIGHT NOW WITHOUT FUTHER DELAY!!!
“Bad for her skin”
Bruh she’s gonna drop dead while walking up some stairs at this rate
Still they are stock market a lost decade
Yeah, I'm not sure this will help Japan's suicide and birth rate.
End of the day they are living with poor nations money 😂😂😂 but show the world I am doing lot. If they don’t do anything too life will move on for all. Waking early and do lot of work for what purpose???? Just to show himself or herself as great leader. Go for peaceful life instead forcing everyone
Skin, health and soon Dementia
First we should stop branding someone is achiever. Every person who is alive is an achiever. Everyone goes through challenges in life. Money is only a facade, some people grab way more than others. It does not make them achievers in my opinion.
I don’t see anyone need to work more than 8 hours if we utilise 6 billion world population effectively.
There is no requirement of anyone need to spend more than 8 hours per day unless if they feel that 70 years of their life expectancy does not enough
We set goals to satisfy our greed and ego, as we continue we need more hours.
Nature is perfect even if we there or not, it does not matter how many hours we work
As part of big bang theory every thing come from singularity and everything go back to that singularity, rest all in between movie pictures with different characters for entertainment
Nature have given gift as life and there is nothing outside life
There is time comes whatever we learn, we need to throw as it no use
If you want to die of cardiac arrest! Yeah u can sleep for only 2hrs
Never listens to anyone who sleeps less..!
She is one crazy aashole
Let's assume a PM, who Loves Ganza because it makes him/her feel out of the world sense of pleasure, then should the one impose taking that shit to others?
Trading with your health is not Intelligence, Definitely doing this madness will make you rich by sacrificing your health and then spend all that hard earned money, in no time, giving to the Doctors. That's why Doctors are so damn rich. If someone offers 100 Crores for jumping off the cliff, would you take that offer?
Because of this Toxic Environment at Jobs, and Toxic Jobs Culture, I started my own business and now I Work Harder, Smarter, and Enjoy Enjoy and Enjoy!
We Earn and Work to Live and Enjoy, and not Live to Earn and Work!
လုပ်ဖော်ကိုင်ဖက်တွေကို အားနာသင့်တယ်နော်။
Palki ✅
Some one needs to make this understand our so called workaholic Prime Minister. Without a family mostly people create havoc for those who hv a family
I gave her six months until she resigns
Pls don't give us Indians ideas anymore. We are already tired with our own Mr Narayan Murthy 😂
If you are Rich and Powerful you can speak all non sense.
Life is short. work and health must balance. in this days many people are in depression and mental health cause of over work.