Workaholic No More

28 Nov 2010 - "Workaholic" may no longer be the most appropriate label for Japanese businessmen. A survey has shown that Japanese men spend less time at work than they once did amid an economic downturn and use their leisure time surfing the internet at home rather than going for a drink with the mates. Japanese men now work eight hours and 39 minutes a day on average, around one hour less than they did in 2000. The survey covered 400 male corporate employees in their 20s to 50s. In their private time workers spend a record seven hours and 59 minutes a week on the internetor catching up with e-mail, the survey showed. The previous survey in 2000 showed they spent seven hours and 52 minutes watching TV - then the top leisure time activity. Drinking coffee at coffee shops or bars now took up just two hours and 25 minutes a week, down from a high of seven hours and 52 minutes in 1990.