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Sat 11 Nov 2002Up to 60% of working people feel job causes illnessUp to 60 per cent of working people feel their job makes them ill, an increase that corresponds with unprecedented changes in the nature of work in the past 20 years, a leading occupational psychologist has said.Prof Tom Cox, Professor of Occupational Psychology at the Institute of Work, Health and Organisation at the University of Nottingham, told a conference of occupational health doctors that work-related illness tends to occur "when work load gets out of control".