Overwork kills more than 7,450,000 people per year

Posted by jaytaylor on Monday May 17, 2021 @08:16PM
from the npr.org dept.

https://www.npr.org/2021/05/17/997462169/thousands-of-people-are-dying-from-working-long-hours-a-new-who-study-finds

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Re:Overwork kills more than 7,450,000 people per year by mgh2 on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @01:17AM (#27191476)

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27180545

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Re:Overwork kills more than 7,450,000 people per year by dhd415 on Monday May 17, 2021 @09:51PM (#27190498)

Looks like there's an extra zero in the HN title on this one.

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Re:Overwork kills more than 7,450,000 people per year by lummm on Monday May 17, 2021 @10:05PM (#27190570)

So what are we supposed to do about it? Work less? Lol.

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Re:Overwork kills more than 7,450,000 people per year by ksaj on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @12:27AM (#27191257)

Once upon a time, working hours was 9 to 5. Even Dolly Parton sang about how exasperating working just those hours was. Now it's usually 830 to 530 because lunch is no longer included in those hours. That's pretty much 20 hours a month of additional work that wasn't required until recently.

Then people still get stuck answering work emails and texts, and "just finishing up that document" etc, when they get home.

We could start looking back to what were considered normal working hours, and the solid separation of work and home life that existed just a few decades ago.

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Re:Overwork kills more than 7,450,000 people per year by devoutsalsa on Monday May 17, 2021 @09:54PM (#27190517)

I wonder how many die from no employment or underemployment.

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