Working too much can have negative impact on both your mental and physical health in 8 ways
Your health may get affected, if you fail to achieve healthy work-life balance. Scientists found in several studies that working for too long can have bad impacts on your health. When you work too much it causes stress, which can badly hamper both your physical and mental health. Harvard business and Stanford University conducted a joint study, which unveiled that about 90% of your physical health can be damaged by stress which generally generates in workplace.
Know more about negative effects of all work.
- If you work too much, it may cause the risk of developing cardiovascular disease by nearly 60%.
- The risk of having a heart attack may rise by about 13%, if you work for too long, and if you work more than 55 hours, it can enhance your risk of having a stroke by almost 33%.
- Continuously working too much can cause mental well-being troubles.
- Your learning ability and memory power can be decreased or failed due to working overtime, since you don’t get sufficient rest time to rejuvenate your brain.
- If you work more than 11 hours, your risk of suffering from depression can be raised.
- More than 40 hours work a week can raise your chances of gaining weight, and you may also fall in tobacco and alcohol abuse.
- If you work more than 50 hours a week, you will get less than 6 hours a day for sleep. As a result, it will reduce the output of your work performance.
- Working consistently at the computer can make you liable to suffer from headaches and cause blurred image.
Here is given some tips to prevent the ill effects of working overtime from damaging your health:
1. Have a short journey
Everyone should occasionally have a short journey. It will not only keep you away from workplace, which is a main cause of stress, but also help develop your health significantly. It also rejuvenates your body and mind. In this way, your overall health will be improved.
2. Meditation
Meditation can effectively help you reduce ill effects that develop due to overtime work. You should devote few times in meditation everyday in order to reduce stress and calm your disturbed mind.
3. Don’t do your office work at home
Once you reach home, stop checking your email or mobile phone for message regarding your office work. Moreover, keep your smartphone away from the dinner table and stop discussing anything regarding work while taking meal.
4. Consult your doctor for regular checkups
Another preventive step that everyone should take very sincerely is to consult a doctor regularly. Screening tests should be done from time to time so that you can take necessary steps to prevent stroke, heart disease or high blood pressure at early stage.
Despite your massive work pressure, you should take break to rejuvenate your mind and body. It will help you make a better work-life balance and hence, a healthier life.
This is a good reminder, I think if I keep things up the way they are now I might be found slumped over my desk one day!
In my case, I am facing blurred vision.
Sounds like a vacation is in order
Short vacation is very important to keep your body and mind rejuvenate.
Amen to all of that!
Absolutely agree. Staying healthy is a priority