17 seriously disturbing facts about your job
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The average American spends 90,000 hours at work over their lifetime.
Source: Happiness at Work by Jessica Pryce-Jones
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But 87% of Americans have no passion for their jobs.
Source: Deloitte’s Shift Index survey
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And 80% of US workers are outright dissatisfied with their jobs.
Source: Deloitte’s Shift Index survey
One University of North Carolina study showed that half of marriages in the US with a workaholic spouse end in divorce — compared to 16% of marriages without one.
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A third of managers in the UK say they're losing their sense of humor because of work.
Source: Quality of Working Life report from Chartered Management Institute and Workplace Health Connect
And nearly 60% say their jobs are making them insomniacs.
Source: Quality of Working Life report from Chartered Management Institute and Workplace Health Connect
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The average American spends more than 100 hours commuting every year.
Source: US Census Bureau
And a quarter of Americans say work is their No. 1 source of stress.
Source: The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
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In the US, stress from work is estimated to be the fifth-biggest cause of death.
Source: The Baltimore Sun
In Japan, hundreds of Japanese workers die every year from "karoshi," or death by overwork. That might involve suicide or simply dropping dead at their desks.
Source: Associated Press
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Women earn 80% of what men are paid in the US, and that gender wage gap isn't on track to close until 2119.
Source: AAUW
The wage gap even more pronounced for women of color. Hispanic women were paid 54% and black women were paid 63% of what white men were paid in 2016.
Source: AAUW
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Nearly half of America has gained weight at their current job; 26% have gained more than 10 pounds, 11% have gained more than 20.
Source: CareerBuilder
Americans used 17 vacation days on average last year, less than the average of 20 vacation days they used in the 1980s and 1990s.
Source: Project Time Off
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And the majority of Americans don't even use all of their vacation days; there were 705 million unused days off last year nationwide.
Source: Project Time Off
That might not be changing for the better anytime soon, as 40% of millennials say they "feel guilty" for using all of their vacation days.
Source: Randstad
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And even when employees do go on vacation, 42% of them say they feel the pressure to check in with their offices while they're gone.
Source: Randstad
Alyson Shontell contributed to a previous version of this post.
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