A five-country survey, commissioned by Philips and reported in today’s Financial Times finds that the recession exacting another price: Lost zzzz’s.
- “The average manager is sleeping 19 percent less than the recommended eight hours a night.”
- “Some 40 percent of those questioned blame the state of the global economy for their insomnia.” [What do the other 60 percent blame? Indigestion? The dog? Dick Cheney? — Ed]
- “Americans are more likely than other nationalities to lose sleep through stress at work, with 30 per cent citing it as the reason they wake up at night.”