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Lengthening Workweeks Robbing Americans of Sleep

A survey of 1,000 people found participants average six hours and 40 minutes of sleep a night on weeknights. Roughly one-third of those surveyed said they had fallen asleep or become very sleepy at work.

While sleepy workers know they're not performing well, work is what's keeping them up at night. Workdays are getting longer and time spent working from home averages close to four-and-a-half hours each week.

The average waking time is 5:35 AM, and the average bedtime is 10:53 PM.


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  Yahoo News March 3, 2008




 
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Posted On Mar 04, 2008
We are all so stressed in this country!...lack of sleep, poor diet, lack of exercise, not to mention the stress that samurai talks about.....is aging us all very quickly, not to mention lowering our immune systems....When will companies and schools get it???? healthy employees/students are happy, productive, loyal employees/students.....

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Posted On Mar 05, 2008
"When will companies and schools get it?"

I don't know, but until they do*, i am neither getting married nor having kids.


* It is suspected that certain persuasive leaders in the shadows do this on purpose to keeps the parents too busy to raise their kids. :(

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Posted On Mar 04, 2008
At Pepsi, you were emotionally docked for using all vacation / holiday time entitled to you, if you were in management.  Needless to say, I was not always in good standing because I actually took my weekends off.  If you were arriving to work later than 7:30a.m. and leaving the office any earlier than 5:30p.m. you were viewed as a "goof off".  You should see the aging that occurs across the board when people live on Diet Pepsi, whatever is in the vending machine, alcohol, and the drive to "win". 
I did my indentured servitude.  I look a lot younger now. 
Sleep is everything.

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Posted On Mar 04, 2008
My health has been compromised by the lack of sleep resulting from doing shift and on call work in a health care setting. The thing that really annoyed me was that the managers were not interested in the fact that the workplace and its policies were making me sicker and would have forced me to continue the downward spiral had my doctor not instructed them otherwise. They were more interested in making sure everyone did their fair share and once one person was adversly effected they did not even consider what they could do to prevent other workers developing similar problems. I have now left that environment but unfortunately there are other workers heading the same way.

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Posted On Mar 05, 2008
Sleep is definitely important.  I agree that shift work or night shift work messes with your circadian rhythms and I believe it shortens your life.  My dad worked night shift all his life from age 16 on and was diagnosed with colon cancer less than 3 months after he retired.   He died 3 weeks after his 65th birthday.  I am sure that his shift work contributed to it.

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Posted On Mar 05, 2008
I totally agree!  And since I have to be at work earlier than I used to, I haven't been getting the quality of sleep I need either (I am just not an early-morning person, no matter what time I go to bed or sleep), and have put on several pounds.  I think, also, when we don't get enough sleep, we don't make as good a food choices (is that grammatically correct?) because (at least in my case) we don't feel like making something and when I'm tired, I don't care about anything but sleep.

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