insomnia

In a workforce where nearly 20 percent of people experience insomnia, office productivity suffers as a result--to the tune of nearly $32 billion a year. That number, which comes from a new study in Archives of General Psychiatry, may seem staggering. But it doesn't quite tell the whole story. In the study, researchers asked 10,000 people about their job performance and found that 7.2 percent of workplace errors were linked to insomnia, which is defined simply as difficulty falling or staying asleep. The problem: People often don't accurately remember how well they slept, says Christopher Winter, M.D., medical director of the sleep medicine center of Martha Jefferson Hospital, and a Men's ...