This study examines the association of work and health-related characteristics with the intention to continue working after the age of 65 years. Data were from the Netherlands Mental Health Survey and Incidence Study-2 (NEMESIS-2), a nationally representative population survey, including 1854 employees aged 45-64 years; 29.0% reported the intention to continue working after 65 years. Lower educ...

OBJECTIVES To test the efficacy of a multicomponent technology intervention for reducing daily sedentary time and improving cardiometabolic disease risk among sedentary, overweight university employees. DESIGN Blinded, randomised controlled trial. SETTING A large south-eastern university in the USA. PARTICIPANTS 49 middle-aged, primarily female, sedentary and overweight adults working in ...

Background: Essential Hypertension (HTN) is a challenge for public health professionals all over the world. It is the leading and most important modifiable risk factor for coronary heart disease, congestive heart failure, stroke, renal diseases and retinopathy. People's occupations during their working years can clearly be a risk for hypertension, this can be seen amongst employees of the profe...

Gender Pay Gaps among Highly Educated Professionals: Compensation Components Do Matter Making use of panel data from a survey of highly educated professionals, gender pay gaps are explored with regard to total compensation as well as to individual compensation components. The results indicate meaningful male-female wage differentials for this quite homogeneous group of people working in one spe...

The Purpose of the Study was to investigate the turnover intentions among new entrants in software testing professionals who are working in software industry which is located in Chennai. The Samples unit [N = 135, Male = 67, Female = 68] was drawn from Software Industry. The Study investigated the Organizational Satisfaction, Job Satisfaction, Interpersonal Relationship with Supervisor’s and Li...

This paper provides a detailed decomposition analysis of the gender differences in workplace training throughout the working life with a particular focus on parental leave and supervisors using personnel records from a large German firm. Females obtain less training during the early career, and more at higher age. The timing of the training gap seems to be driven by diverging career paths assoc...

BACKGROUND The associations of occupational activity (OA), commuting, leisure-time physical activity (LTPA), and sitting with overweight/obesity in working adults are controversial. This study explored these factors with the risk of overall and abdominal overweight/obesity in a Chinese working population and whether these associations differ by gender. METHODS A cross-sectional study was cond...

For most employees, the weekend offers the opportunity to recover and unwind from demands faced during the working week. In this study, first, we examined which factors contribute to employees' successful recovery during the weekend. Second, we investigated if being highly recovered after the weekend benefits different dimensions of job performance during the week. Using a within-person design ...

OBJECTIVE Working long hours is a potential health hazard. Although self-reporting of working hours in various time frames has been used in epidemiologic studies, its validity is unclear. The objective of this study was to examine the validity and reproducibility of self-reported working hours among Japanese male employees. METHODS The participants were 164 male employees of four large-scale ...

This study examines (1) whether there are employment grade and gender differences in job dissatisfaction and (2) whether work, family, and personality characteristics explain grade and gender differences in job dissatisfaction. The participants were 3,812 civil servants, aged 20-65, working at a local government in Japan. In both males and females, low control, low social support, work-to-famil...