Understanding the hidden costs of working long hours (2025-2028)

This project aims to map the harmful impact of working hours on life satisfaction over time, answering the questions of when harmful effects emerge, the severity of the effects, and who is most vulnerable. It will develop and test a novel computational model, integrating recent advances in computational psychology, to deliver new knowledge from the largest to-date examination of the relationship between working hours and life satisfaction. Expected outcomes are a new theory of how working hours affect well-being over time with widespread implications for industrial and organisational psychology. The benefits include actionable insights from new software to help policymakers ensure work practices promote sustainable global economic growth.