Are You Working Too Hard for Sleepless Nights?
Last night I was exhausted, yet by the time I got home and finally shut my laptop down I found that I just couldn’t fall asleep! And to make matters worse, as I was counting lots of fuzzy white sheep I heard on the news that Americans are sleeping less and it’s all because of work! Duh, this is old news, right? But a new survey by the National Sleep Foundation shows that people are spending an average of 4.5 hours each week doing additional work from home, on top of a 9.5 hour average work day. After daily tasks such as commuting to and from work and dinner, who has time to live an actual life anymore?
Even worse yet, recent estimates suggest that the overtired workforce costs the economy between $50 and $130 billion each year due to lost job productivity, accidents, injuries and medical conditions.