Stressed Employee at work PHOTO: PeopleImages | Getty Images Working more than 55 hours a week increases the risk of death from heart disease and stroke, according to a United Nations study out Monday. The report by the UN’s World Health Organization and International Labor Organization agencies comes as the Covid-19 pandemic accelerates workplace changes that could reinforce the tendency to work longer hours. The WHO-ILO study, published in the journal Environment International, is the first global analysis of the risks to life and health associated with working long hours. It does not focus on the pandemic but on the preceding years. The authors synthesised data from dozens of studies involving hundreds of thousands of participants.
Working 55 hours a week increases risk of death: United Nations study
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