Sleeping less is making you less efficient
| Updated: Nov 22, 2019, 12:54 IST
Have you ever fallen asleep at your desk or struggled to stifle a yawn during a meeting? Well, you may think that sacrificing your sleep is helping you further your career, but it’s only taking you further away from success!
When you reduce the number of hours you sleep, it deprives your body of the time it needs to replenish itself and carry out important bodily functions.
Here’s a few ways in which sleep deprivation is affecting the way you work:
1. Less productive
When you’re groggy and tired, both the speed and quality of your work suffers. Your thinking is slowed down and even your movements and actions are lethargic as your body is exhausted.
2. Distracted
You’re so busy yawning and trying to stay up that you lose focus on work because your body will crave sleep in the day since you haven’t completed your essential sleep cycle.
3. Low immunity to illness
Sleep deprivation directly affects your health and being sick directly affects the way you work. Even something as basic as a common cold can lower your output level drastically. Falling sick also means taking time off from work, missing out on good opportunities.
4. Forgetful
Lack of sleep can make your mind foggy because of which you may miss out on details or even forget instructions, files, etc. It can cause many mishaps at the workplace which otherwise could be avoided.
5. Irritable
Sleeping less definitely makes a person wake up with a groggy and cranky state of mind! It can put you in a bad mood, making you easily upset and ill-tempered which can take a toll on your workplace relationships and even make you seem unprofessional.
So, if you’re a part of most Indians suffering from low productivity and efficiency caused due to sleep deprivation, it’s time for you to #TakeBackSleep.
Visit us at www.takebacksleep.org to take the Sleep Quiz and join the movement.
When you reduce the number of hours you sleep, it deprives your body of the time it needs to replenish itself and carry out important bodily functions.
Here’s a few ways in which sleep deprivation is affecting the way you work:
1. Less productive
When you’re groggy and tired, both the speed and quality of your work suffers. Your thinking is slowed down and even your movements and actions are lethargic as your body is exhausted.
2. Distracted
You’re so busy yawning and trying to stay up that you lose focus on work because your body will crave sleep in the day since you haven’t completed your essential sleep cycle.
3. Low immunity to illness
Sleep deprivation directly affects your health and being sick directly affects the way you work. Even something as basic as a common cold can lower your output level drastically. Falling sick also means taking time off from work, missing out on good opportunities.
4. Forgetful
Lack of sleep can make your mind foggy because of which you may miss out on details or even forget instructions, files, etc. It can cause many mishaps at the workplace which otherwise could be avoided.
5. Irritable
Sleeping less definitely makes a person wake up with a groggy and cranky state of mind! It can put you in a bad mood, making you easily upset and ill-tempered which can take a toll on your workplace relationships and even make you seem unprofessional.
So, if you’re a part of most Indians suffering from low productivity and efficiency caused due to sleep deprivation, it’s time for you to #TakeBackSleep.
Visit us at www.takebacksleep.org to take the Sleep Quiz and join the movement.