Overwork threatens health of office workers

SHANGHAI - More than 70 percent of Chinese white-collar workers suffer from overwork and are at a greater risk of having health troubles as a result, according to a recent survey.

The survey, which was conducted by the job-search website zhaopin.com, polled 5,000 white-collar workers and concluded that the majority of young people in China work under a load of stress they find difficult to cope with.

"I have to work at least 12 hours every day if I have a film or advertisement to shoot, and then I stay awake until 3 am if the website needs me to upload footages," Wang Hukun, a 26-year-old producer from a Shanghai communication company, told China Daily. He also moonlights as a part-time editor for a website.