Comments on: Strategies for a sleep-deprived workday

By: sleep

sleep — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:48:11 +0000

thanks for the information.

By: Five Steps to Being More Productive « sayasaja

Five Steps to Being More Productive « sayasaja — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 13:16:47 +0000

[...] think they can use caffeine to dull the need for sleep, but it catches up with them. Fortunately, you only need a 10-minute nap to get your brain back on track. And when you're making up for several nights of lost sleep, [...]

By: Teresa Ables

Teresa Ables — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 13:29:42 +0000

I haven't slept much in 4 nights(5 hrs maybe) and no naps in the day time. My husband won't allow it. I have panic disorder and agoraphobia (no meds) and I feel horrible. What can I do?

By: mitch

mitch — Sat, 12 May 2007 13:10:06 +0000

all this – and yet we ask our medical professionals to work at least 12 hour shifts (in the US)… sometimes ask them to do double shifts as well.

By: Five Steps to Being MOre Productive « Spaceline

Five Steps to Being MOre Productive « Spaceline — Fri, 11 May 2007 13:41:43 +0000

[...] The other common culprit to focusing is lack of sleep. Some people think they can use caffeine to dull the need for sleep, but it catches up with them. Fortunately, you only need a 10-minute nap to get your brain back on track. And when you're making up for several nights of lost sleep, you don't need to make it all up — you just need seven hours to get back on your game. [...]

By: richard

richard — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 17:05:29 +0000

your sleep artical reminded me of a time when i used to run small ships out of the republic of panama, we had been caught in very hard weather for over two days, it was so rough that the secound hand in my wrist watch was bent. for two days we watched a semi tanker trailer pound a hole in the deck big enough that you could drop a small car through. there was just one chain on the inbord side that did not break and allow it to go over the side held vy the four unbroken outbord chains,it would have beaten the sides of the vessel out and we would have gone down. needless to say by the time we got to the panama canall we were short of sleep, we needed to go through the canal to the carabian side before we shut down. on the way through there was a dredging barge that is over a block long and three stories high, light up like las vegas, that no one in the bridge saw, we all were standing there looking right at it as the ship closed in on it and no one saw it until we were right upon it. we went to full power astern and watched it dissapear under the bow. we must have missed hitting it by less than a few feet. we were awake, but asleep at the same time. i think lack of sleep is worse than being drunk.

By: Sleepy

Sleepy — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 16:53:25 +0000

This is so confusing.

All the articles in the world tell you how all the great, successful achievers get up early. No one gets up after 5:30 or 6 in the world of high-powered executives, and we are encouraged to emulate this. I am trying desperately for an extra half-hour in the morning myself.

But in order to get enough sleep, I'd have to be in bed, lights out, by 10pm. I find it hard to believe that any of these industry leaders are home much before 8 or 9pm. So that means that they are probably not getting more than 5 or 6 hours of sleep.

Why doesn't someone ever ask these people how much sleep they get?

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Charles Czeiler wrote in the Harverd Business Review that it it unethical for executives to go with so little sleep becuase it puts so many people at risk for their sleep-deprived bahavior. Here's where I blogged about this:http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2006/10/27/friday-smorgasbord-moralists-ethicists-and-philosophers/

-Penelope

By: Wendy

Wendy — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 16:23:18 +0000

I expect that in the coming years, many companies will begin to experiment with offering nap opportunities.

As talented workers become more scarce and expensive, it will be important to maximize their productivity on the job. If 20 minute naps will do that, many companies will go for it.

There is a company now offering "nap pods" in a couple downtowns and at the Vancouver airport. I think you pay for each 15 minutes. Perhaps these will be installed in some office buildings and work places and workers will be able to book a cat nap (and if you only have 15 or 20 minutes before the next person's turn, you couldn't oversleep).

By: Chris Yeh

Chris Yeh — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 06:41:22 +0000

I wish that companies had the good sense to institute siesta policies. Even though I, an admitted eccentric who actually does sometimes work at a homemade treadmill desk in the office, recognize the value of napping, keep a sleeping pad under my desk, and don't have to worry about job advancement or pay raises, there is something so powerful about the stigma of sleeping on the job that I've only napped at the office perhaps 2-3 times in my career (though I have gone home to nap more often than that).

And if I'm reluctant to nap, I can only imagine the pressure that others feel to conform!