{"id":107637,"date":"2021-05-19T16:53:23","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T11:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=107637"},"modified":"2021-05-19T21:32:38","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T16:02:38","slug":"who-ilo-study-on-the-impact-of-long-working-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/who-ilo-study-on-the-impact-of-long-working-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO-ILO Study on the Impact of Long Working Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><\/h5>\n<h5><strong>What is the News?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/world-health-organizationwho-funding\/\">World Health Organization<\/a>(WHO) and the <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/international-labour-organization-ilo\/\">International Labour Organization<\/a> (ILO) has published a study on the <strong>Impact of Long Working Hours<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>About the study:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The study <\/strong>covered global, regional, and national level data from more than 2,300 surveys collected in 154 countries from 1970-2018.<\/li>\n<li><strong>It covered <\/strong>37 studies on ischemic heart disease covering more than 768 000 participants and 22 studies on stroke covering more than 839 000 participants.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Key Findings of the study:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Deaths due to Long Working Hours:<\/strong> Long working hours have led to 745,000 deaths from stroke and ischemic heart disease in 2016. This is a 29% increase since 2000.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Gender and Region-wise: <\/strong>The work-related disease burden is more in men (72% of deaths occurred among males). Whereas people living in the Western Pacific and South-East Asia regions, and middle-aged or older workers faced the majority of deaths.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Age Wise: <\/strong>Most of the deaths recorded were among people dying aged 60-79 years who had worked for 55 hours or more per week between the ages of 45 and 74 years.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The number of people working long hours is increasing <\/strong>and currently stands at 9% of the total <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/unfpa-releases-state-of-world-population-report-2021\/\">population<\/a> globally. This trend puts even more people at risk of work-related disability and early death.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Conclusion:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The study concludes that working 55 or more hours per week<\/strong> is dangerous. It is associated with an estimated 35% higher risk of a stroke and a 17% higher risk of dying from ischemic heart disease compared to working 35-40 hours a week.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Suggestions: <\/strong>Governments, employers, and workers can take the following actions to protect workers\u2019 health:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Government <\/strong>can introduce, implement and enforce laws, regulations, and policies. That is to ban mandatory overtime and ensure maximum limits on working time;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Collective bargaining agreements <\/strong>between employers and workers\u2019 associations can arrange a working time to be more flexible. While at the same time, they can agree on a maximum number of working hours.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Employees <\/strong>could share working hours. It will ensure that the number of hours worked does not climb above 55 or more per week.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/who-ilo-study-links-long-work-hours-to-more-deaths-7320664\/\"><strong>Indian Express<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? The World Health Organization(WHO) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) has published a study on the Impact of Long Working Hours. About the study: The study covered global, regional, and national level data from more than 2,300 surveys collected in 154 countries from 1970-2018. It covered 37 studies on ischemic heart&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/who-ilo-study-on-the-impact-of-long-working-hours\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WHO-ILO Study on the Impact of Long Working Hours<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,164,1305,9],"tags":[1303],"class_list":["post-107637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","category-index-reports-bodies","category-public","tag-eco_8","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704924027},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}