I hear you.
#1 Too Many Hours
Working from 9 to 5, five days a week, is quite exhausting for everyone. But that’s jut how it is. Yet apparently it has quite negative effects on people over forty.
#2 Less Hours Per Week
A recent study from the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research claims that people over 40 should be working less hours per week.
#3 Testing Performance
In said study, researchers looked at the number of hours people worked and then their performance on various psychological tests. The tests involved levels of short-term memory and concentration.
#4 Bad Scores
Working around 25 hours a week was found to be helpful for psychological performance. Working more than that produced worse scores on the tests.
#5 Don’t Overdo It
Obviously people over forty need to remain active, but overdoing it has negative effects on memory, attention and even thinking.
#6 Older Retirement Age
Yet retirement age seems to be going up and up. Surprisingly people who worked around 60 hours a week showed worse cognitive performance than those who didn’t work at all.
#7 Criticism
“The research looks only at over-40s, and so cannot make the claim that over-40s are different from any other workers,” said Geraint Johnes, a professor of economics at Lancaster University.
But it makes sense to me…
