How to Improve Your Team’s Productivity Through More Sleep
The good news is some organizations appear to be changing their tune. Google and Goldman Sachs cover healthy sleep in employee trainings.
Aetna actually pays its employees about a buck for every night they sleep seven to nine hours.
We at Rise Science are seeing an uptick in companies prioritizing sleep for improved productivity outcomes.
The even better news is that improving our sleep—and reaping the rewards for productivity—is in our control (unlike much of the current moment).
Managers and other organizational leaders can encourage their teams to harness the benefits of regular sleep.
Research shows that simply giving employees more oman telegram data control over their schedule, without even directly influencing their sleep, has lasting benefits.
But there are also ways you can explicitly prioritize sleep for improved productivity outcomes.
These fall into three main categories: awareness, environment, and behavior:
Awareness:
In addition to knowing (and minimizing) your sleep debt, it helps to understand your circadian rhythm. Together the two comprise the “Two Process Model of Sleep Regulation.” Your body’s natural circadian rhythm drives your daily energy ebbs and flows over the course of the day. Empowering team members to control their sleep debt, as well as schedule their day according to natural peaks and dips in their energy unlocks new levels of focus.
Environment:
To fall asleep and stay asleep, make your bedroom like a cave. In other words, cool, dark, and quiet. Encourage employees to set the thermostat to between 65 and 68 degrees Fahrenheit, ensure their rooms are dark enough that they don’t know when the sun comes up (we recommend a mask), and wear ear plugs.