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A
sleep-deprived employee is as dangerous on the job site as one
who is legally intoxicated and translates into the workplace as
slow reaction time, poor judgment and accidents!
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Today's
employees increasingly use drugs and alcohol to wake up and go to
sleep and have negative side effects to the employer such as
grogginess and decreased: focus, short-term memory and ability to
learn on the job. Drug companies are targeting the 'tired
worker market' Sleeping medications and in 2005 estimated their
market share will increase by 158% to bring in $11 Billion/yr by 2011.
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Better
sleep is associated with improved academic success
-translates into dong better at work.
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2009
report on the price tag of insomnia in Quebec (Canada) was 6.5
Billion per year
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2009
report on the price tag of Quebecer's reliance of alcohol as a sleep
aid was 340 Billion per year.
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The
portion of the night after drinking spent on deep sleep where we
recuperate that physical energy and in dreaming is reduced.
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The
most common physical complaint of employees is chronic fatigue
due to loss of quantity and quality of sleep.
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Even
if we sleep 6-8 hours after drinking alcohol we don't feel as if
we have because it is not restorative. Our restorative CD
improves the quality of sleep.
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33%
of employees make mistakes at or missed work -because of lack of sleep.
Reducing this saves time, money and expensive re work.
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In
extended working hours, fatigue lowers one's ability to learn on
the job due to depressed moods and motivation. In life extended
hours is equal to a regular job and too much work outside the normal
workday such as a second job or parenting.
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A
happier worker is a cheaper worker and tends to be more
productive, takes fewer sick days and costs employers less in
disability expenses. (An unhappy worker can cost an 1000 employee
company about 1 M in disability and lost productivity.)
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Shift
workers average 2-3 hours less sleep per day than
non-shift-workers, increasing their accident risk and speed of work performance.
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Training
programs for workers and their families increase sleep by 18% per
night and 54% of workers will make conscious sleeping habits
change when their families understand.
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36%
of overworked employees are highly stressed. (People are overworked
at home too!) Stress costs the average company $1 per every $10
earned in increased employee turnover and medical costs. Stress
causes 13 M sick days per year. Reducing stress levels will
reduce sick days and sick leave.
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Stress
increases behavioral reactions: taking unnecessary risks, increased
smoking and consumption of alcohol.
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38%
of office workers fake illness and 72% do it for stress & tiredness.
Regular use of the Winning CI EDGE offsets stress and tiredness and
will reduce this figure.
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Extended
hours workers have significantly higher rates of absenteeism and turnover.
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Absenteeism
rate increases when overtime rises. With an increase of
productivity your overtime requirements are reduced. Reduced
overtime will lower your absenteeism rate and capture savings.
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Shortened
sleep duration and sleeping difficulties are related to behavior
problems and showed that short sleep, per se, increases behavioral
symptoms, regardless of the presence of sleeping difficulties.
Inadequate sleep leads to behavior problems and translates into
workplace management problems.
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Personality
traits associated with stress and worry can lead to bad behaviors
(smoking and drinking) that require intervention and prevention programs
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Failed
social interaction (anger, conflict, worry, fear) adds onto normal
stress levels, causing poor quality sleep. Testimonies
