1 of 2 | Chronic health conditions are having a serious, negative impact on the welfare of the country’s workers and their output, a new Harvard poll shows. Photo by fauxels// Pexels
NEW YORK, Feb. 11 (UPI) — Chronic health conditions are having a serious, negative impact on the welfare of the country’s workers and their output, a new Harvard poll shows. More than half of employees suffer from chronic conditions, and three-fourths of them need to deal with their illnesses on the job, according to the poll conducted by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston and the de Beaumont Foundation in Bethesda, Md., and released Tuesday. Advertisement
Even so, a majority — 60% — have not formally revealed their disorder to the employer, the poll found.