{"id":610,"date":"2007-02-23T01:00:52","date_gmt":"2007-02-23T09:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=610"},"modified":"2006-12-29T12:06:57","modified_gmt":"2006-12-29T20:06:57","slug":"sleep-work-life-and-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=610","title":{"rendered":"Sleep, Work-Life and Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many of us who read systematicHR are in the same situation. We\u2019re good at what we do, we\u2019re over-worked, we\u2019re committed to achievement, and our employers expect us to succeed. It all boils down to one thing \u2013 most of us are not getting enough sleep.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dubs is writing about sleep? You ask. Why yes. As described in Harvard Business Review:<\/span><\/p>\n

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The general effect of sleep deprivation on cognitive performance is well-known: Stay awake longer than 18 consecutive hours, and your reaction speed, short-term and long-term memory, ability to focus, decision-making capacity, math processing, cognitive speed, and spatial orientation all start to suffer. Cut sleep back to five or six hours a night for several days in a row, and the accumulated sleep deficit magnifies these negative effects. ((Harvard Business Review. October 2006. \u201cSleep Deficit: The Performance Killer.))<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Most interesting to me are that focus, decision making ability and cognitive speed were negatively impacted by a lack of sleep. In most cases, the government (in the <\/span>U.S.<\/span> at least) has regulated work. By implementing overtime wages (and double time in some cases), as well as agencies like the FAA dictating the number of flight hours\/sleep hours airplane pilots can have, employees governed by hours have been monitored for some time. In many other countries, culture has helped as well. Heck, siesta is a real thing in <\/span>Spain<\/span>, and most of <\/span>Europe<\/span> really does take the month of August off. (systematicHR site hits drop every August \u2013 go figure).<\/span><\/p>\n

Unfortunately, those of us in executive or otherwise influential positions are not governed by hours and do often put in ridiculous hours. There are two sides to looking at this \u2013 self governance and managing the workforce. Self governance is simply the realization that you\u2019ll be more effective with some sleep \u2013 so minimizing the number of \u201call nighters\u201d is important (I\u2019ve done 2 all nighters so far this month). The management viewpoint is more important however, as it applies to how we interact with our employees and what we expect from them. Realistic expectations should be set \u2013 this means training managers to staff projects adequately, and the set reasonable time tables. <\/span><\/p>\n

Sleep is absolutely a human resources issue. Whether you make it policy or you have training guidelines around it, your organizational performance is what takes a hit if you ignore it.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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