Thursday

Phil Tinline charts the progession of the working week in five days. On today's agenda: overworking.

By Thursday the working week is beginning to take its toll for many, but for a lot of people, the work never stops. Phil looks into the rise of 'overworking' and heads into the world of people working way beyond the 9-5.

They include proponents of the new 9-9-6 working culture: 9am to 9pm, Monday to Saturday, popular in China and Silicon Valley. Phil meets successful 996 entrepeneur is Harry Stebbings, founder of 20VC. 20VC is Venture Capital firm and podcast company, managing $850m of investment. For Harry, 996 is a mindset to be 'always on' and committed to being better than a competition working Monday to Friday.

Phil examines how the culture of overworking came to be endemic in the the UK, the United States, Japan and beyond. Is it down to the individual, the employer or society at large? He asks who exactly is overworking, whether it is a bad thing for everyone.

Presenter: Phil Tinline
Producer: Sam Peach