With workdays getting longer, and more people spending several hours a night on work they bring home, it seems our workforce is sleepier than usual.
According to a survey released by the National Sleep Foundation, people on average get six hours and 40 minutes of sleep a night. And as a result, one-third of survey respondents said they have fallen asleep at their desks, or came very close to, at work in the past month.
People are also staying up later to spend time with their families, the survey said. The average bedtime is 10:53 p.m.
Also, people on average wake up at 5:35 a.m., giving them a few precious morning hours before leaving for work.
What do you think? Does the survey give a fair assessment of the businessperson’s life?
And how many of you find your are falling asleep at work?
From the Associated Press story:
Just how big a deal that is depends, of course, on your job. Last week, the chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission acknowledged it should have done more to investigate a tip that security guards routinely took naps while on the job at a Pennsylvania nuclear plant.
It wasn’t until a videotape of guards sleeping in a “ready room” at the Peach Bottom plant in south-central Pennsylvania surfaced several months after it got the tip that the NRC announced in September a special investigation.
