 The recent report released by World Health Organization and the International Labor Organization which puts 745,000 deaths rate in 2016 as a result of stroke and heart disease has elicited reactions from human resources practitioners. WHO and ILO say these casualties are reportedly to have worked an average of 55 hours weekly as against the 40 hours recommended by ILO. WHO has more in this report. World Health Organization, in a statement from its headquarters in Geneva on Monday, said that the figure was the first global analysis of loss of lives and health associated with working long hours. According to reports, working long hours is killing hundreds of thousands of people a year and could be getting worse due to the economic slowdown. The World Health Organization won by calling for employers and governments to cap working hours in order to safeguard employees' health. Some hater experts shared their thoughts and how it causes serious health hazards to workers. As much as employers want to achieve maximum productivity and they also don't want to also lose quite a number of their work outside. So with this now and this is actually telling on the health and is telling on the employees themselves because having to work, having to work 80 hours for a week, having to because labor law mandated that average in Nigeria, Nigeria labor law stays 80 hours. I mean 40 hours, pardon me, 40 hours per week. So because of employee wanting to achieve a whole lot, they tend to use their employer as more than the numbers of working hours. And this is really, really causing a lot of hazard in the health of employees. My own recommendation for handling this issue of long hours work for employees is we should embrace, gladly, we should embrace the issue of work flexibility, working remotely, working from any way the employer's shoes in as much as we provide some IT based shoes and make it to checkmate and see what they are doing. Some workers in Lagos also expressed how this has affected their mental health. It affected me to be a mentor because actually it was dozing. I wasn't thinking properly, you know, I was about having a headache because I don't think I had enough sleep. So it really affected me. Stressful, I must confess. It affects the mental health because in balance, sometimes when you look at it, some of us will fall sick, in the morning you will be so tired. Stressful, really stressful and I always can't wait to get the weekend so I can rest and regain my sanity and ease off a bit. The World Health Organization says that hours should be capped for worker safety as long working hours appear to be the most significant occupational disease burden accounting for a third of work related disease. For Plus TV Africa, Gozika or HSE.