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While Denmark brings in foreign labor and rewards pensioners for staying on the job, thousands are being pushed out of working life by stress.

New report: Stress keeps 99,000 out of the labor force

Animation: Tomas Østergren. Foto: Magnific

Stress has a firm grip on the nation’s workplaces.

There could be 99,000 more people in the labor force if serious stress among 20- to 59-year-olds had not occurred over the past 30 years.

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