As we celebrated mothers this Mother’s Day, we realize how important healthy work is to working mothers (the majority of mothers worldwide). When we think about healthy work, we must also think about gender equity, and other inequalities in the labor market including...
Remote Work or Return to the Office?
The Healthy Work Campaign published a new Medium article recently, "Remote Work or Return to the Office? It depends." exploring the enormous transition that many workers made to "remote work" during the pandemic. Up until June there appeared to be some movement from...
“Work, Health, Stress” A Collaboration between CSE and Suramericana, Colombia
The CSE has been invited by Sebastián Segura (PRAX) and Viviola Gómez (Professor, the Stress and Health Research Group of the Universidad de los Andes) to collaborate with Suramericana — a large Colombian occupational health insurance company that provides workplace...
WHO/ILO: Long work hours contribute to deaths worldwide
Long working hours are increasing deaths from heart disease and stroke — a new study from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Labor Organization (ILO) — documents that long working hours (>55 hours a week) contributed to 745,000 deaths in...
Stress in the Time of COVID-19
As we published our new Medium Article last week Blurred Boundaries: Work-life balance in the time of COVID-19, we received a newly released Stress in America report from the American Psychological Association (APA) on Stress in the Time of COVID-19. Between March 26...
High levels of work stress among Bus Drivers
Bus Drivers experience high levels of work stress particularly when driving in crowded urban areas. The Center for Social Epidemiology has been working for the past 6 years with the City of Los Angeles Department of Transportation and the bus driver union SMART as...