The habit of drinking alcohol with colleagues after work is often considered an important way to build relationships, but A study group of researchers from Japan, Taiwan and South Korea showed that such meetings did not improve the economic situation.
In many countries, including those in East Asia, partying with colleagues has traditionally been seen as almost an integral part of work culture, a means of building trust within the team, getting closer to the boss, or moving up the career ladder.
The researchers surveyed 3,500 men between 25 and 59 years old with 45 questions referring, among other things, to health, alcohol consumption habits, finances and weekly working hours. In addition, the respondents tested their alcohol tolerance using a simple patch test.
The researchers were particularly interested in asian mennot only because of the culture of alcohol consumption, but also because of the alcoholic flush syndromea genetic inability to digest alcohol common among the population of this region, which causes people’s faces to turn red while experiencing headaches, dizziness and other symptoms.
Thus, they discovered that those who drink more they don’t seem to have an advantage economy over their less-drinking, ethanol-intolerant counterparts.
“We found no justification for drinking to improve labor market outcomes,” said Professor Daiji Kawaguchi, an economist at the Graduate School of Public Policy in the University of Tokyo.
“Health research has already found that excessive alcohol consumption does not provide any benefit in terms of improving health, so I think this is important knowledge for when a person decides to drink or not,” he added.
Now the scientists want to repeat the experiment with a much larger data set and in collaboration with other specialists.
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