links for 2009-01-09

09 Jan 2009, by ToUChstone blog in Web links

• More than five million people are working unpaid overtime in the UK
  Unpaid overtime working is now up to a record value of £26.9bn annually, taking the TUC's Work Your Proper Hours Day 2009 up to 27 February. Fear of job loss in the downturn is contributing to this increase, but it may be putting staff health and productivity at risk.
  (tags: workyourproperhoursday long_hours unpaid_overtime)
• How Porsche hacked the financial system and made a killing (code culture)
  Ivan Krstić with an account of shorters squeezed and fortunes made and lost at Porsche and Volkswagen.
  (tags: porsche shortselling shorting volkswagen stock_market)