The Global Death Toll From Working Too Much Has Been Calculated, And It's Awful

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Long hours and overwork are likely to be causing hundreds of thousands of deaths a year around the globe, according to a new study from the World Health Organization (WHO) – and the problem is getting worse.

In 2016, researchers estimate that around 745,000 people died worldwide from strokes and ischemic heart disease linked to working more than 55 hours a week, an increase of 29 percent over the same figure from 2000.

https://www.sciencealert.com/working-long-hours-is-killing-hundreds-of-thousands-of-people-who-study-finds

This has been well known in Japan for a very long time, "overwork" being a valid COD. Most of Europe mitigates it by mandating generous vacations and offer no reward for working through them, they rather insist employees take the time off.

The US has fallen so far behind the rest of the world, I wonder if we'll ever catch up, and it's killing us.

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1. The choice is money or life. Some people choose money.

[Warpy]

2. And many don't have a choice

Women in "traditional" marriages who go home to shoulder the burdens of housework and childcare are one example. Another is the marginal worker trying to make do on a patchwork of jobs with a huge amount of commuting time between them. The study seems not to have looked at these people, the poor and women being neglected all over the place.

It's not just salaried employees being worked to death by corporations. It's going across the population. Workers are working more with less to show for it every single year.