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⌨️Are you working from home, or living at work?

⬆️Many of us as we found ourselves battling longer hours and higher workloads during the shift to working from home.

The impact long working hours has on our minds and bodies is staggering

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Working 55 hours or more a week leads to:
❌35% higher risk of stroke
❌17% higher risk of dying from heart disease

Almost 3/4 that died as a result of working long hours were middle-aged or older men.

The study was conducted by WHO and International Labour Organisation

The average working day in the UK has lengthened by two hours because of Covid.

🌕Toiling into the night is rapidly becoming our new normal

Have you been working longer hours since the transition to working from home?
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🌍The findings shed a light on a growing problem happening worldwide.

🇯🇵In Japan, death from overwork is so common they even have a word for it: karoshi

Suicide due to overwork is called karojisatsu

Long before the pandemic, Britons have been working longer hours than their European counterparts.

🇬🇧UK average 42.5 hours a week
🇪🇺European average 41.2 hours a week

🔥In 2019, WHO recognise burnout as a medical condition:

“Feelings of energy depletion or exhaustion; increased mental distance from one's job, or feelings of negativism or cynicism related to one's job; and reduced professional efficacy”

Have you been experienced burnout?
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Long hours take their toll on the body.

People who worked three or more hours overtime had a 60% higher risk of heart-related problems such as:
📌Death due to heart disease
📌Non-fatal heart attacks
📌Angina

According to research undertaken on civil servants in 2010

Studies undertaken by the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health have found that overwork can lead to:

💤 Impaired sleep
🤦Depression
🥃Heavy drinking
🧠Poor memory
❤️Heart disease

In recent years, much research has been undertaken to explore whether the 40-hour working week is outdated.

👌A survey undertaken by 'All Work' found that the ideal working week is 29 hours

🗓️Others think the answer to a better/work life balance could lie in the introduction of a four-day working week.

Microsoft saw a 40% increase in productivity when they trialled the four-day week in Japan

📈Experts predicts levels of overwork are going to increase following the pandemic.

“The job insecurity we’re going to see will increase people’s stress levels, leading them to up their working hours to show commitment,” says Cary Cooper, professor at University of Manchester

❌745,000 people died in 2016 from stroke and heart disease due to long working hours.

If expert predictions are correct on the overworking trend, it seems, things will only get worse for our health
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