Napping at Work
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How Sleep may Improve Employee Productivity
A lot of people don’t get enough sleep. In fact, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that one out of three adults gets less than seven hours of sleep on a work night. A lack of sleep makes it difficult to concentrate and is associated with serious health problems such as obesity and diabetes. But did you know that getting too little sleep may also be hurting your employees’ productivity?
Sleep in the US
Sleep has greatly declined over the past century. In 1910, for example, Americans slept an average of nine hours a night. Today that number is down to around 6.8 hours per night and people are spending more time in bed during their waking hours than they used to do.
Poor sleep and lack of sleep doesn’t only affect Americans. According to the World Economic Forum, Japan and South Korea clock in at the bottom of the list with people averaging somewhere around 6.3-6.4 hours of sleep per night.
Across the Atlantic, Europeans are doing a little better. People in the Netherlands, Finland, the UK and Belgium reportedly get a little more than 7.5 hours...
Recent Articles
Sleep deprivation in health care workers and short rest solutions
Employees nap more when working from home – and that’s a good thing
In 2021, Restworks conducted a survey of more than 2,000 people working from home during numerous lockdowns around the world. Our purpose was to better understand how the Covid-19 pandemic has affected the relationship between work and sleep. One of the things our data revealed was a dramatic increase in napping during working hours. Here’s why:
Your Employer should encourage Napping at Work – Here’s why
The uninterrupted, eight-hour workday as we know it is a fairly new invention. Before the 19th century, most workers enjoyed a long midday break. Industrialization did away with the siesta, but at a cost, as we humans are still genetically hardwired for daytime sleep. With a global workforce that is increasingly sleep-deprived, bringing back daytime naps has never been more important.
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