Boeing once again pushed back the date for the first manned flight of its new space taxi, and now hopes that a crew will take the helm of its CST-100 Starliner in mid-2018. The aerospace company is racing with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to be the first to take American astronauts back into orbit again following the end of NASA’s space-shuttle programme in 2011.
The Japanese government published its findings into suicide driven by overwork, known as karoshi. Its survey found that more than a fifth of companies employed staff who did up to 100 hours of overtime a month, in a culture that prides itself on putting the hours in at the office. By industry, IT workers were the most stressed; 44% of IT companies said their employees put in more than 80 hours of overtime a month.