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🗓️ 25 May 2021
⏱️ 13 minutes
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0:00.0 | So as it turns out, if you have ever said, this job is killing me, you may have actually been right and not a whiny, whiny baby. |
0:07.6 | The reason I say that is according to the first global study of its kind, when working 55 hours or more per week, compared to 35 to 40 hours per week, |
0:15.7 | it increased the risk of stroke by 35% and death by heart disease by 17%. With the World Health Organization saying that in 2016, which is the most recent year it looked at, |
0:24.6 | 745,000 people died from stroke and heart disease due to long hours. |
0:28.6 | And notably, that is a 29% increase from 2000. |
0:31.6 | With a study which was conducted by the WHO and the ILO, the International Labor Organization, |
0:35.6 | finding that nearly three quarters of those that died, |
0:38.1 | they were middle age to older men, |
0:39.6 | even if it was years and years after their period of overwork. |
0:43.2 | This report also noting that geographically, |
0:45.1 | Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific |
0:46.8 | were among the areas most affected. |
0:48.4 | With the World Health Organization also noting |
0:50.0 | that this trend may actually worsen |
0:51.4 | due to the coronavirus pandemic. |
0:52.8 | Also, if you happen to be one of those people that kind of prides themselves on how much they hustle and they work, in addition to this |
0:58.2 | information, you should also know that there was a study back in 2014 that actually showed that |
1:01.5 | productivity plummet after 64 hours per week. So the return on investment of those hours, they plummet. |
1:06.6 | You're essentially digging, your grave. And actually, according to a recent study on frontline nurses, |
1:15.3 | they found that the stress of overwork and can also lead to depression, anxiety, and you already know this. This research is just validating what you've been feeling inside. Yeah. With that said, |
1:20.3 | welcome back to the Philip DeFranco show. Hit that like button to support the video. Hit that |
1:23.8 | subscribe button for your chance to win $5,000 at the end of the month, and let's just jump into it. |
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