Her World Singapore

IS IT WORTH IT TO CRASH AND BURN?

When business manager Sarah Chua was clocking 13 hours a day, five days a week in a tech start-up, she thought it was normal.

That was because she had company – her colleagues stayed until nearly 9.30pm every day.

Sarah kept it up for a few months, slogging right through dinner before she called it a night at 9pm at her office in Telok Ayer. Even then, the e-mails continued to stream in from overseas clients, and the e-mail browser was the last thing she’d see before she slumped into bed.

“It’s part of the work culture, where you see your

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