Long working hours are a killer, linked with 35% higher risk of stroke: WHO study

Long working long hours is killing hundreds of thousands of people a year which may intensify further due to the coronavirus pandemic, the World Health Organization said.

Working long hours is killing hundreds of thousands of people a year in a worsening trend that may accelerate further due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization said on Monday. In the first global study of the loss of life associated with longer working hours, the paper in the journal Environment International showed that 745,000 people died from stroke and heart disease associated with long working hours in 2016. That was an increase of nearly 30% from 2000.