Long working hours are silent killers, taking the lives of hundreds of thousands of people every year, a study conducted by two UN agencies has found.
Extra working hours led to 745 000 deaths from stroke and ischemic heart disease in 2016, a 29 per cent increase since 2000, according to the latest estimates by the World Health Organization and the International Labor Organization.
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