Most experts say the ideal amount of sleep is a blissful seven or eight hours, but in today’s increasingly busy world, that’s not always possible to achieve. However, sleeping much less than that can have serious implications for our health and how we function during the day. Leading mattress review website, Mattress Clarity, polled 2,500 American workers and found that, on average, almost a quarter of people say they are ‘surviving’ on five hours, or less, sleep every night.
It appears that getting this little sleep could be attributed to people’s employment and the wider economy.
According to the media release by Mattress Clarity, 57% of people surveyed who sleep less than 5 hours say that work stress leads them to experience a bad night’s sleep. In fact, statistics show that Americans work more than anyone else in the industrialized world – more than the English, French and Germans, and even those notorious desk-bound office workers, the Japanese. We also take less vacation, work longer days, and retire later, too. You can check out the results of the survey in an info graphic here.
It appears that getting this little sleep could be attributed to people’s employment and the wider economy.
According to the media release by Mattress Clarity, 57% of people surveyed who sleep less than 5 hours say that work stress leads them to experience a bad night’s sleep. In fact, statistics show that Americans work more than anyone else in the industrialized world – more than the English, French and Germans, and even those notorious desk-bound office workers, the Japanese. We also take less vacation, work longer days, and retire later, too. You can check out the results of the survey in an info graphic here.
Additionally, an ABCNEWS poll found only 26% of Americans feel they work too hard, which is twice as many as 13% of respondents told a Harris Poll in 1960 that they felt overworked. This increased to about a third of people with kids, or workers between 35 and 54 years old.
Nevada is where the highest number of people are surviving on five hours of sleep or less: 43.8% of them in fact. Ohio workers are among the most sleepless people in America, with over 1/4 (27.8%) surviving on little sleep each night. In comparison, the state doing better as far as sleep is Arkansas, where the least amount of people – just 8.6% - say they sleep five hours or less.
Sometimes people suffer from sleep apnea, for that CPAP mask or CPAP masks for side sleepers are very effective to have good night sleep. But the main thing is, people need to have a comfortable environment for sleep. A stress-free mind, pin-drop silence, comfortable bed - these are essential for a good sleep.
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