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It's safe to say the majority of us have had our fair share of weekend shifts.
Whether it was your first job as a teenager, you're a shift worker, or you're in Uni trying to scrape enough cash to buy groceries... the weekend shift is sometime a necessary evil.
And no matter what age you are, they don't get any easier.
Well in news to justify weekend workers around the globe, a new study has shown that working weekends can really affect your mental health.
Researchers at UCL and Queen Mary University of London have found people that work long shifts at weekends are at higher risk of depression, it also showed that women were at more risk than men.
After surveying 20,000 people it was found that those who work more than 55 hours per week displayed 7.3 percent more depressive symptoms.
The study showed 4.6 percent of women who worked weekends also displayed symptoms of depression while 3.4 percent of men showed signs of depressive symptoms.
Lead author of the study, Gill Weston told Metro:
"This is an observational study, so although we cannot establish the exact causes, we do know many women face the additional burden of doing a larger share of domestic labour than men, leading to extensive total work hours, added time pressures and overwhelming responsibilities.
"Independent of their working patterns, we also found that workers with the most depressive symptoms were older, on lower incomes, smokers, in physically demanding jobs, and who were dissatisfied at work.
"We hope our findings will encourage employers and policy-makers to think about how to reduce the burdens and increase support for women who work long or irregular hours – without restricting their ability to work when they wish to."
