The bar chart illustrating the average number of weekly work hours for various professional groups and the pie chart depicting the proportion of individuals in these professions suffering from stress-related illness.
Overall, the most striking fact from the graphs is that businessmen work the most hours per week, whereas lecturers experience the highest level of stress-related illness working considerably fewer weekly hours.
In detail, the bar chart presents businessmen and movie producers working the most hours per week at about 70 and 60 hours respectively. In contrast, lecturers work the fewest hours at approximately 25 hours per week. As for writers, doctors, chefs, lawyers and programmers, they fall in between working around 45, 52, 30, 35 and 40 hours per week respectively.
The pie chart reveals that although lecturers work the fewest weekly hours, only one in four suffers from stress-related illness. It is significantly higher than other occupations such as programmers and writers together with lawyers who face this issue at 5% and 8% respectively. Meanwhile despite their long working hours (70 and 60) businessmen and movie producers are not the most susceptible to stress with only 11% and 18% experiencing illness.