Full-Time Work Could Be Bad for Your Brain

Jul 24, 2016, 09:06 PM

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If you're looking to make it into Mensa, you might want to cut back your hours at the office.

Working more than 25 hours a week could be negatively affecting the intelligence of employees over age 40, the BBC reported. That conclusion comes from a study by researchers for the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research in Australia, who conducted reading, pattern, and memory tests on more than 6,000 workers.