Hard work never killed anyone or so the saying goes. but that’s apparently not true of the absurdly long hours that have become standard in today’s workplace.
According to a recent study conducted by researchers at Stanford and Harvard quoted in The New York Times, “working long hours increased mortality by 20 percent.”
Generously assuming that the lifespan of a worker today is about 100 years, that means that working long hours is cutting as much as 20 years of the average worker’s lifespan.
Some of the other findings of the study are almost as alarming:
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