Sleep is something that’s consistently elusive, yet necessary to good living.
When it comes to work, doing it on little sleep can mean less work getting done.
As you’ve likely noticed, “[t]he more sleep-deprived you are, the slower you become at getting tasks done at work.” Sure, you can pop up in the morning and pour yourself a coffee to wake you up, but you won’t be able to maintain that same level of productivity throughout the day.
Sleeping less is making you poorer. A recent study found “one extra hour in average sleep over the long run is associated with a 16 percent increase in wages.”
Even worse, sleep is increasing the number of days you have to take off, as a study in Sleep found that “sleeping fewer than five hours or more than 10 hours a night is associated with staying home sick for 4.6 to 8.9 more days than people who sleep between seven and eight hours a night”.
When you control for all other factors, it’s easy to see the correlation between better sleep and more success at work.
Just don’t oversleep!
this doesn’t have to be you