While a senior exec position leads to a slightly increased health risk, a job with no control is significantly more dangerous #WIRED

Are Your Co-Workers Killing You?

• By Jonah Lehrer  

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/08/are-your-co-workers-killing-you/

- should I do yoga? take long walks? not watch television? — the amount of time we might spend in downward facing dog pose pales in comparison to the amount of time we spend seated in our chair, staring at the computer screen, surrounded by co-workers.

- the magnitude of the “friendly colleague effect” is a bit unsettling: people with little or no “peer social support” in the workplace were 2.4 times more likely to die during the study, especially if they began the study between the ages of 38 and 43. In contrast, the niceness of the boss had little impact on mortality.

- if he or she has a high degree of control over work, it is less stressful and will have less impact on health