Flexible working can significantly improve heart health, study shows

Findings are likely to add to debate about whether working from home more often can be beneficial to people’s health. Photograph: Joe Giddens/PA

Flexible working can reduce someone’s risk of having a heart attack or stroke, new American research has found.

Having a better work-life balance is so beneficial to health that some employees who work flexibly end up with heart health equivalent to what they had 10 years earlier.