Overwork, fatigue, even boredom, can be a safety-critical issue for workers like pilots, surgeons and the military.

What is overwork obesity? In China, sudden weight gain because of prolonged work hours, a sedentary lifestyle, and work stress is known as ‘overwork obesity’. Especially, when one overworks ...

Overwork is mentally, emotionally, and physically draining workers, leaving them overstretched and unable to decompress. We need to push back.

Alarming new research shows that people working more than 54 hours a week are at major risk of dying from overwork. It’s killing three-quarters of a million people each year.

Overwork has long been cast as a choice borne out of passion. For legions of workers, it’s anything but. In Britain, one of the country’s prominent physicians, Dr. John Ashton, president of ...

Japan’s grueling work culture is again under the spotlight after the death of a journalist at Japan Broadcasting Corp. (NHK) due to overwork.

Overwork stems from practices that can limit the ability of workers to get adequate rest and can heighten the bodily and emotional hazards that workers experience. Through analysis of 75 interviews ...