[net-gold] MEDICAL: CONDITIONS: INSOMNIA : ECONOMICS : UNITED STATES: Insomnia Costs U.S. $63 Billion Annually in Lost Productivity
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- Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2011 11:15:17 -0400 (EDT)
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MEDICAL: CONDITIONS: INSOMNIA :
ECONOMICS :
UNITED STATES:
Insomnia Costs U.S. $63 Billion Annually in Lost Productivity
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Insomnia Costs U.S. $63 Billion Annually in Lost Productivity
By Amanda MacMillian
Health.com
updated 7:19 AM EST, Thu September 1, 2011
CNN Health
http://www.cnn.com/2011/09/01/health/insomnia-cost-productivity/
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(Health.com) -- People who have trouble sleeping rarely see their problem
as an illness that requires treatment, or as an acceptable reason to call
in sick. That mind-set may be hurting employers and employees alike by
compelling people with insomnia to drag themselves to work and sleepwalk
through the day, a new study suggests.
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Researchers surveyed 7,428 employed people across the U.S. and found that
23% experienced some form of insomnia -- such as difficulty falling asleep
or nighttime waking -- at least three times a week during the previous
month, for at least 30 minutes at a stretch.
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Not surprisingly, these sleep problems carried over into the workplace.
Insomniacs were no more likely than their well-rested peers to miss work,
but they were so consistently tired on the job that they cost their
employers the equivalent of 7.8 days of work in lost productivity each
year -- an amount equal to an average of about $2,280 in salary per
person.
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Those productivity losses add up. The researchers, projecting these
findings to the entire U.S. workforce, estimate that poor job performance
stemming from insomnia drains more than $63 billion from the nation's
economy each year.
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Most study participants did not physically miss work due to insomnia, says
lead author Ronald Kessler, Ph.D., a psychiatric epidemiologist at Harvard
Medical School, in Boston. More often, they showed up too tired to
effectively do their job (a phenomenon known as "presenteeism").
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"Employers these days want their workers to stay home if they're sick. If
they know you're absent, they can at least find ways to fill in for you,"
Kessler says. "But you can't stay home every day if you're chronically
sleep deprived, so these people get in the habit of going to work and then
not performing."
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