OBJECTIVES Many studies have reported an association between overwork and hypertension. However, research on the health effects of long working hours has yielded inconclusive results. The objective of this study was to identify an association between overtime work and hypertension in wage workers 45 years and over of age using prospective data. METHODS Wage workers in Korea aged 45 years and ...

Taiwan’s Labor Standards Law (LSL) requires employers to implement overtime working hour restrictions. These restrictions have a greater effect on women, who are not allowed to work as many overtime working hours as men. This paper examines two hypotheses: First, as the hour restrictions can encourage the efficiency of workers, it will increase wages for women in the covered sector relative to ...

OBJECTIVE Working long hours is a potential health hazard. Although self-reporting of working hours in various time frames has been used in epidemiologic studies, its validity is unclear. The objective of this study was to examine the validity and reproducibility of self-reported working hours among Japanese male employees. METHODS The participants were 164 male employees of four large-scale ...

It was concluded that there was sufficient evidence about a possible link between long working hours particularly exceeding 50 a week and the risk of significant health outcomes, including cardiovascular disease from literature review by Spurgeon et al.. This study was conducted to find out the single effect of regular overtime work on the cardiovascular functions through objective biological i...

This paper examines whether overtime regulations have a significant impact on hours worked and hourly wages, focusing on so-called “name-only managers,” a category of employees recently in the news in Japan. The term “name-only manager” refers to an employee who has essentially the same salary and authority as other employees, but who is designated by the company as a manager to exempt them fro...

BACKGROUND System approaches, such as improving working conditions, have been advocated to improve patient safety. However, the independent effect of many working condition variables on patient outcomes is unknown. OBJECTIVE To examine effects of a comprehensive set of working conditions on elderly patient safety outcomes in intensive care units. DESIGN Observational study, with patient out...

A novel method is proposed to monitor and record scientists’ working timetable. We record the downloads information of scientific papers real-timely from Springer round the clock, and try to explore scientists' working habits. As our observation demonstrates, many scientists are still engaged in their research after working hours every day. Many of them work far into the night, even till next m...

Annualising working hours (i.e., the possibility of irregularly distributing a total number of working hours over a year) permits companies to adapt capacity to fluctuations in demand, thus reducing overtime, temporary workers and inventory costs. Since annual hours can lead to a worsening of the staff’s working conditions, many laws and collective bargaining agreements contain constraints that...