More than 840,000 people die each year from health conditions linked to long working hours, job insecurity and psychosocial risks such as workplace harassment, according to a new global report from the International Labor Organization (ILO).
These work-related psychosocial risks are primarily associated with cardiovascular diseases and mental disorders, including suicide.
The report also found that these risks result in approximately 45 million disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) being lost annually, which refers to healthy life years lost due to disease, disability or premature death, and estimated that this would result in economic losses equivalent to 1.37 percent of global GDP each year.