06/22/2021

Working Long Hours Could be Endangering Your Health

It's more dangerous than you may realize

We all know working long hours can be tiring, but newly released numbers from the World Health Organization (WHO) show just how serious that can be for our health.

The agency is attributing 745,000 deaths around the world to working long hours. They say in 2016, more than half died from a stroke and the rest from heart disease. All these people worked at least 55 hours a week and were between the ages of 45 and 74.

But a workplace wellness expert we spoke with says we need to remember to look at all the things that lead up to those more serious conditions.

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