Americans who are employed full time work an average of 47 hours per week. More work means more stress, which leads to more workplace injuries.

1. Are Long Work Weeks
Leading To More Workplace Injuries?
PRESENTEDBY:

2. An extra day of work each week: Despiteallof the talkaboutthe importanceof
obtaininga healthywork/lifebalance,Americanscontinue to put in longhours,
averaging47hours per week,accordingto a recent Gallupsurvey.
Average Hours Worked by Full-Time U.S. Workers, Aged 18+
In a typical week, how many hours do you work?
%
60+ hours 18
50 to 59 hours 21
41 to 49 hours 11
40 hours 42
Less than 40 hours 8
Employed Full-Time
Based on Gallup data from the 2013 and 2014 Work and Education polls, conducted in August each year.
GALLUP

3. More work means more stress:
A whopping 83 percent of U.S. workers report
feeling stressed by their job.

4. The Top 5 Workplace Stress Producers
Source: 2013 Work Stress Survey by Harris Interactive
http://globenewswire.com/news-release/2013/04/09/536945/10027728/en/Workplace-Stress-on-the-Rise-With-83-of-Americans-
Frazzled-by-Something-at-Work.html
Stagnating Pay 14%
Unreasonable Workload 14%
Commuting 11%
Annoying Co-Workers 11%
Work That Is Not A Chosen Career 8%

5. The relationship between stressand workplace injuries:
A 2015 study by Harvard Business School and
Stanford’s Graduate School of Business found
that workplace stress contributes to at least
120,000 deaths each year and $190 billion in
annual health care expenses.

6. Source: 2015 Stanford-Harvard Business School meta analysis of 228 studies
https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/why-your-workplace-might-be-killing-you
Highly demanding jobs increased the odds
of a physician-diagnosed illness.
Job insecurity increased the odds of
reporting poor health by 50%.
Lack of health care is the biggest stressor.
by 35%

7. What can employees do?
“Employeesneedto understand thatgoingto placeswherethey experiencework-
familyconflicts,longwork hours, economic insecurity, and don’t getaccess to health
insuranceis more than justsomethingthat’s inconvenient.This is somethingthat
actuallyaffectstheirwellbeingin a deepand profoundway.They ought to take these
factorsinto account as they selecttheir jobs.”
–- Jeffrey Pfeffer, Professor of organizational behavior, Stanford University

8. What can employers do?
“Employerswho areconcerned abouthealthcarecosts should worry alot
aboutthe work environment.At the moment, employersworry mostly about
individualdecisions – eating,exercise,smoking,drinking andthings like that –
orthey worry about broadsocialpolicy issues.A lot oftheir excessivehealth
carecosts comefrom whathappensto peopleevery day in the work
environment…thingsthat employerscouldfixif they wanted to.”
–- Jeffrey Pfeffer, Professor of organizational behavior, Stanford University

9. Measuring productivity,
not hours worked.

10. While most employers remain tied to the 40-hour workweek, some
are experimenting with alternative plans and reduced hours.
Amazon launched a pilot program in August 2016
that allows employees in some departments to
work 30-hour weeks for 75 percent of their salary
and retain full benefits.
San Diego-based Tower Paddle Boards cut its
workday from eight hours to five (employees skip
lunch). In the first year of the program, the
company’s revenue rose 42 percent.

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permanent impairments caused by work-related stress may qualify them for workers’
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