The importance of sleep
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 796 Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2023
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
How does sleep relate to your job, your income, or your socio-economic status?
We look at the impact of a good, and bad night’s rest. We discuss the factors affecting sleep, including access to health care, where and how you live, and how that might influence other aspects of your life.
Plus we look at the growing market in devices to ‘cure’ sleep problems.
Producer and presenter: Elizabeth Hotson
(Image: A man in bed in a deep sleep. Credit: Getty Images)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, this is Business Daily with me Elizabeth Hotson. And on today's program, we're looking at the importance of a good night's sleep. |
| 0:09.4 | Through a profound economic implications for a sleep-deprived workforce, and although money can't solve the problem, it can certainly help. |
| 0:17.2 | We haven't found a way to buy sleep with money, but what we can do is buy things that protect our sleep, things like control over our time. |
| 0:27.0 | We can buy things like maybe a shorter commute. |
| 0:30.5 | We'll also be hearing why an obscure form of weather forecast has some of us nodding off. |
| 0:35.7 | Viking, north-Utsira, South Otsira. |
| 0:38.4 | Northwesterly, four to six, becoming cyclonic five to seven later, |
| 0:42.6 | perhaps gale eight later in Viking, snow showers, good, occasionally poor. |
| 0:48.1 | That's all coming up on Business Daily from the BBC. |
| 1:02.3 | It's 3am and I've just woken up for the second time tonight. |
| 1:05.8 | I've got a big day tomorrow and I'm hoping I'll be able to get back to sleep because if I don't, I'm just not going to be able to function. |
| 1:08.7 | And that means my work will suffer, which is also bad for my employers |
| 1:12.1 | because lack of sleep isn't just frustrating for individuals, |
| 1:15.2 | it's bad for the economy. |
| 1:19.5 | The research organisation, Rand Corporation, |
| 1:22.4 | found that the US economy |
| 1:23.6 | loses over $400 billion a year |
| 1:26.3 | due to the impact of sleep deprivation on worker productivity. |
| 1:29.8 | And a recent study by the medical journal PLOS found that your health will also suffer if you |
| 1:34.9 | don't get enough sleep. And this is particularly true as you get older. |
| 1:42.1 | Participants in the study, who were around 50 years old and slept five hours or less, |
| 1:47.0 | had a 30% greater risk of developing multiple ailments than those who slept seven hours, |
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