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Tiredness can have severe impacts on all areas of an employee life and a profound impact on productivity at work.

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1Harvard Medical School Research.

1/3 of workers in the U.S. aren’t getting enough sleep, reducing their ability to do their jobs properly that translates to a shocking $63.2 billion in lost productivity.

 

2American Academy of Sleep Medicine.

Average worker in the USA loses 11.3 working days of productivity a year because of not getting enough sleep. “Respective calculations for Europe are not currently available, but a similar economic burden is reasonably assumed.” (ESRS, European Sleep Research Society). 23% of US employees experienced some form of insomnia at least three times a week during the previous month.

Not surprisingly, these sleep problems carried over into the workplace. Insomniacs were no more likely than their well-rested peers to miss work, but they were so consistently tired on the job that they cost their employers the equivalent of 7.8 days of work in lost productivity each year — an amount equal to an average of about $2,280 in salary per person.

In Belgium, stress and tiredness is responsible of 37% of sick leaves which costs around 800 euros per employee per day. In France, 1/3 person is lacking sleep and 1/5 suffers insomnia. In UK, 86% of parents admitting to suffer from fatigue.

“When we are tired, we find it much harder to think innovatively and to make creative leaps.”
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    The Economic Costs of Insufficient Sleep

    Sleep deprivation cost / year, across five OECD countries.

    • United States $411 billion (2.28% GDP)
    • Japan $138 billion (2.92 GDP)
    • United Kingdom $50 billion (1.86% GDP)
    • Germany $60 billion (1.35% GDP)
    • Canada $21.4 billion (1.35% GDP)
    SOURCE: RAND Europe >

    Tiredness As A Risk Factor

    Since than more than 20% of people are “morning larks” (doing their best work in the morning) and more than 20% are “night owls” (doing their best work in the evening), a little bit less than half of your employees are not efficient, not productive or feeling tired in the afternoon.

    Tiredness was a contributing factor to these disasters:

    > Versailles Train Crash, 1842
    > The Boston Molasses Disaster, 1919
    > De Havilland Comet Plane Crashes, 1954
    > Nuclear Three Mile Island, 1979
    > Alexander L. Kielland Oil Platform, 1980
    > The Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster, 1986
    > The Challenger Space Explosion, 1986
    > The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, 1989
    > Eschede Train Disaster, 1998
    > American Airlines Flight 1420 Crash, 1999


    With Day to Day Words

    “When we are tired, we find it much harder to think innovatively and to make creative leaps.”
    – Antonio
    “When we are tired, we find it harder to adapt our thinking to new information or to learn new lessons.”
    – Maria
    “When we are tired, we struggle to make good judgments in very ambiguous situations.”
    – Laura
    “When we are tired, we are also more vulnerable to mood swings, more irritable and less able to get along with others.”
    – Paul
    “Sleep is the golden chain that binds health and our bodies together.”
    – Thomas Dekker (Author, 1572-1632, Kingdom of England)
    “Your life is a reflection of how you sleep, and how you sleep is a reflection of your life.”
    – Dr. Rafael Pelayo (Sleep Specialist)
    “Nap first. Think later. It’s the natural order.”
    – Samuel Beckett (Novelist, theater director, poet)
    “Intelligence without naps is a bird without wings.”
    – Salvador Dali
    “Don’t think you will be doing less work because you sleep during the day. That is a foolish notion held by people with no imagination. You will be able to accomplish more.”
    – Winston Churchill
    “Eighty percent of success is naps.”
    – Woody Allen