Work more than 40 hours a week? You’re 6 times more likely to ‘burn out’ than those who work fewer than 35.
New research from the Aragon Institute of Health Sciences in Spain shows that long hours increases the risk of “burnout syndrome”: long-term exhaustion, a loss of interest in your work, and high levels of irritability. Read more…
posted 30/06/2011
If you sit at a desk all day, you’ll already know that sitting in one position for too long will leave you stiff and uncomfortable. Well, what if your chair reminded you when you needed to make a move?
The “Intelli-chair”, developed by researcher Risto Koiva and his team at Bielefeld University in Germany, will make a noise if the sitter is sitting in a poor position, or has been sitting down for too long. Read more…
posted 12/10/2010
…it really might be better to say nothing. If your boss likes to tick people off in public, he or she could be damaging more than morale. Research suggests that witnessing rudeness in the workplace could lead to mistakes and poor performance.
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posted 13/07/2010
Being regularly stuck at your desk long after normal working hours can be a drag, no matter how much you love your job, and certainly doesn’t do much for your social or family life. But a new study shows that workers putting in too many extra hours in the office may be more likely to develop heart problems.
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posted 14/05/2010
A senior car worker for Toyota died from working too much overtime a Japanese labour bureau has found.
The 45 year old man was one of Toyotas most senior engineers and had been working on a new hybrid car at the time of his death.
Having worked on average more the 80 hours of overtime a month in the two months preceding his death, regularly worked nights and weekends and travelled extensively overseas, the man was found dead in his Tokyo home from ischaemia the day before the car was to be premiered at a show in Detroit.
Japan has one of the worst records for long working hours and last year there were 142 documented cases of “karoshi” – death from excessive work
Read more at the Guardian: Senior Toyota engineer died of overwork
posted 10/07/2008
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