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Dying for a job in IT?

Darren Bolton Neowin @dazb69 · Jul 15, 2002 05:54 EDT with -1 comments

Study finds techies are putting their health at risk

If there's one thing that defines a person working in computers more than anything it is long working days.

If there's an upgrade to do, downtime to be minimised, urgent fault resolution or just a simple project that needs to be completed, you can almost guarantee that IT staff will be working until the early hours to ensure that it gets done.

And that means clocking up long hours, early starts, late finishes. But none of it is good for the health.

A study published this week in the Occupational and Environmental Medicine journal claimed to have found a direct link between working long hours and having a heart attack.

News source: vnunet.com