Three in four Americans say their jobs are nerve-wrackingly stressful, and a recent JAMA study, as described by ABC News, found that "people who return to a stressful job after recovering from a heart attack are twice as likely than those without stress to experience another one."
This is only the latest addition to a body of research showing that stress can be physically harmful. A challenge, then, to all those companies who make their employees pay insurance premiums for being obese or living unhealthy lifestyles: are you equally willing to address the increased health risks of workplace pressure? If workers have to pay for carrying a few extra pounds, will you compensate them for tight deadlines and heavy workloads?
Could the Stress at Work Kill You? [ABC News]
Job Strain and Risk of Acute Recurrent Coronary Heart Disease Events [JAMA]
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