An hour spent commuting is 1/16th of your daily life, and that hour is by far the biggest risk to your life every day. You should be getting triple pay to ameliorate the hazard risk it represents.

  • Droggelbecher@lemmy.world
    8·
    7 hours ago

    Great news, traffic deaths are no more because most victims die in the hospital instead of at the site of the accident. Fear hospitals, not traffic.

      • andallthat@lemmy.world
        2·
        5 hours ago

        Might not be the biggest risk to your life but it’s 2.3% out of 55 Millions death (so, just to put things into perspective, we’re talking 1.6M deaths per year).

        Besides, the risk is not only death directly in an accident. For those 33% who died from heart diseases: stress is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease and the paper does mention specifically work stress as a risk factor

        The risk of a cardiovascular event was higher in patients with a history of social isolation (OR, 2.47), marital stress (OR, 2.28), work stress (OR, 3.2), childhood abuse (OR, 2.78), or trauma (OR, 2.67).

        Again not all of it will be due to commuting to work, but raising your stress levels by having you commute needlessly in traffic is not good for your health even if you don’t die in a car crash.

      • Droggelbecher@lemmy.world
        1·
        7 hours ago

        Somehow my app won’t let me paste a link, sorry. But for most of your working years, you’re most likely to die by unintional injury:

        And that’s just death that we’re talking about. Youre in danger of non lethal injury, too.