A person's cognitive and emotional health is at risk from long-term overwork, according to new research highlighting the changes to the brain caused by years of excessive work levels. Zacharie ...

Spending too much time at work may not just exhaust your body, it could also be affecting your brain. A new study has found that working over 52 hours a week may lead to changes in the brain's ...

China’s 996 model – 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week – was sold as a path to speed, discipline, and dominance. In reality, it became a case study in how overwork corrodes the very foundation of ...

A new study has discovered that a culture of overwork is a key barrier to employees' use of paid leave and workplace flexibility policies. Workers are more likely to forgo using work/life policies in ...

The findings of preliminary research indicate that long working hours may alter the structure of the brain, particularly those areas associated with emotional regulation and executive function, such ...

Long working hours may alter the structure of the brain, particularly the areas associated with emotional regulation and executive function, such as working memory and problem solving, suggest the ...

An atlas-based analysis showed a 19% increase in left caudal middle frontal gyrus volume of the overworked group versus the nonoverworked group. HealthDay News — Overwork in health care workers is ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Adia Harvey Wingfield is an author and a professor of sociology. In the academic department where I work, a running joke among my ...

The negative effects of workplace stress, overwork, and burnout are widely recognized by healthcare professionals, employers, and workers worldwide. Decades of research acknowledge both the need for ...

People who work too hard and for too long can end up altering parts of their brains that manage memory and problem solving, new research suggests. A team of South Korean researchers said that their ...