BMC's latest discovery: unbalanced work life or harmful to health

A recent study of European office workers published in the open-access journal BMC Public Health showed that people with unbalanced work-life are more likely to report poor health

The time available in a day is limited, but the challenges that office workers face are diverse, including various “deadlines” (task deadlines), financial obligations, and family responsibilities that are difficult to shirk

In order to find out the relationship between work-life balance and self-reported health status of European office workers, a research team from Bielefeld University and the Leibniz Institute for Prevention and Epidemiology (BIPS) analyzed the 6th report in 2015.

The author found that people with work-life imbalances are twice as likely to report poor health

The study’s first author and PhD student Aziz Mensah from Bielefeld University said: “Traditional and social expectations of men’s and women’s behavior are that women are responsible for caring and family activities, and men are responsible for making money.

The author also compared work-life conflicts and poor health in various regions of Europe

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The author believes that the research results indicate that organizations and policymakers need to provide working conditions and social policies to enable adults to cope with competing demands in work and family activities without negatively affecting their health

The author reminds that since the work-life balance is assessed by asking the respondent "whether the working hours are compatible with family or social obligations", it may not be able to cover all the factors that cause work-family imbalance, but this answer is OK As an important indicator

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Work-life balance and self-reported health among working adults in Europe: a gender and welfare state regime comparative analysis Mensah and Adjei.