A person's cognitive and emotional health is at risk from long-term overwork, according to new research highlighting the changes to the brain caused by years of excessive work levels. Zacharie ...

A new study has discovered that a culture of overwork is a key barrier to employees' use of paid leave and workplace flexibility policies. Workers are more likely to forgo using work/life policies in ...

“Each week is different. Sometimes they [the employer] ask me to stay one hour after my shift, sometimes two, sometimes more. It really depends on what they need, but they never consider the worker ...

Spending too much time at work may not just exhaust your body, it could also be affecting your brain. A new study has found that working over 52 hours a week may lead to changes in the brain's ...

Our chaotic culture makes it hard to separate work and business in our lives. Because of smartphones, computers, and social media, beating burnout becomes a lifelong process. People expect an ...

China’s 996 model – 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week – was sold as a path to speed, discipline, and dominance. In reality, it became a case study in how overwork corrodes the very foundation of ...

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), working long hours results in hundreds of thousands of deaths per year. A recent review published in Environment International presented estimates by ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Adia Harvey Wingfield is an author and a professor of sociology. In the academic department where I work, a running joke among my ...

In this article, we will look at the 20 most overworked countries in Asia. We have also discussed the dire consequences of overworking. If you want to skip our detailed analysis, head straight to the ...

People who work too hard and for too long can end up altering parts of their brains that manage memory and problem solving, new research suggests. A team of South Korean researchers said that their ...