Sleep Can Be Good for Your Salary

Wages are stagnant. You can't possibly make this argument without acknowledging that compensation is tied to the whim of management.

I agree with this article. I ony wish there could be more helpful information for us folks who are getting older (60ish) had more research in how our sleep patterns change with age.

This article is spot on. Stress will wake you up and keep you up as you plan the next day..and the next day arrives at its own leisure. You haven't slept well..you shower...get to work. It comes on very slowly, but once it takes hold of you, you become restless, overweight and angry at the drop of the hat. So, you will make a few 100K more for a few years and then crash out. Or you can be in a less stressful job and work longer years without crashing and making more money overall.

A four day work week would likely go a long way to helping people get more sleep. It would also increase our now semi-stagnant productivity. Microsoft tried it in workaholic Japan and was rewarded with an astronomical 40% increase in productivity. People need time off and time away from the job to decompress...and sleep. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/microsoft-tried-4-day-work-week-productivity-soared/

Given the impact of earlier sunset on amount of sleep in a region, isn’t this good reason to do away with Daylight Saving Time? I wonder if these researchers have included DST as a factor.

This concept of a relationship between work and sleep reads like a cat chasing his tail. It is so circular, and full of qualifiers, as to be self contradicting. I would never have made it through college, working full time, if I had required much sleep. The fact that I probably did not perform at my best was quite evident, but I had no reasonable alternative. I only had a middle class income, during most of my working years, was because I trained myself to work two full time jobs, to make up for my disinclination to climb the organizational ladder, which would have been more stressful, making sleep difficult. I have had to "unretire" more than once, in order to have an adequate income. It boiled down to a choice between achievement or getting a more comfortable amount of rest, at the expense of a bleak lifestyle, which in my case, would have led to restlessness and discontent. While some of us are sleeping, others are more worried about paying utility bills.

In the 90s, I took a 25% cut in pay (working 3/4 time ) just so I could sleep and not need an alarm clock to wake up. But now I wonder if a flame-retardant saturated bed followed by a ficam bombing at a drugstore followed by a Dursban spraying at my workplace cafeteria didn't contribute to my need to sleep -- since we are now learning that cerebrospinal fluid "cleans" the brain of many toxins during sleep!

This article: “It could be the chicken. It also could be the egg!”

Poor sleep is infectious. Poor sleepers stress more easily and inflict a lot of stress on the rest of us. As a consequence, we sleep less. We in, turn, inflict stress on others...the cycle continues. Until sleep becomes the ultimate status symbol, I don't see this cycle stopping.

There is evidence that integration and storage into long term memory...the previous day’s classroom or client meeting...occurs best between hours 6 & 8 of a night’s sleep. And the NFL has identified the best performance enhancing drug is sleep!

Correlation vs causation?? At least in an expensive city like San Francisco, people who earn less can’t afford to live in the city, often have a long commute and need to work multiple jobs to make rent and pay for day care. Hard to get a full nights sleep in that situation.

I’ve worked for some highly successful people who survive well on about four hours per night. It is amazing what they could accomplish with the equivalent of an extra day in their day. My needing 7-9 hours really cost me. As to start times, let’s talk about the NYSE, that’s the 800 pound gorilla in the room. The entire rest of the country is geared to be at work when the market opens. Move the market open back an hour and everyone living outside of EST would be better off.

“Stress disrupts sleep” As a small business owner...let me just make a public service announcement: You won’t get much sleep.

Arizona has a phenomenal number of intersection accidents, associated with a phenomenal number of people running red lights. I don't see how lack of sleep corresponds to driving like a maniac.

Yet another reason that it is not only cruel but also counter-productive to have only 12 weeks (if that) of maternity leave and almost no paternity leave. Let new parents try to sleep for the first 6 months - they will be better workers when they return.

If this were the case, there would be hundreds of commissioners in my government office.

This just in, humans need an adequate amount of sleep. It can vary slightly from person to person. If you are not getting enough sleep address the problems that are causing you to miss sleep. Not getting enough sleep will make you just plain miserable and not getting a good salary is number 1,000 down the list.

Frakt writes: "... Studies show that higher-income earners sleep less than lower-income ones. "That could be because higher-income people are spending more time working, so they have less time for sleep...." They might have less time for sleep because of demanding social schedules involving theatres, opera, and the philharmonic. I recall a month in 1972 when Park Avenue relatives traveled around the world on the S.S. France. My spouse and I replaced them in their apartment that October with their two adolescent sons, while maintaining our own work schedules. We took over their season tickets to many events and monitored their mail, at their request.