Inadequate rest is costing the Australian economy more than $66 billion a year. Of that figure, $17.9 billion is lost each year from loss of productivity.
If you’ve been awake for 19 hours straight, your brain function is equivalent to having a blood alcohol level of 0.5 per cent.
Little wonder that the total cost to the Australian economy of inadequate sleep is $66.3 billion a year. Of that figure, $17.9 billion is lost each year from loss of productivity. Steven Lockley, associate professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, says: “For the past three or four decades, really, we’ve heard a lot from the exercise lobby and the nutrition lobby, which maybe gives the impression that [they are] more important than sleep.
Quinane regards sleep as so important that two out of 14 modules of Ashurst’s cognitive health program are devoted to the topic.“Much like a drunk brain can’t judge how impaired it is, the sleepy brain can’t either,” Lockley says. “[The sleepy brain] is impaired and so people often overestimate how alert they are. We’re very bad at judging our own level of sleepiness.”“If you don’t sleep, you don’t learn. So executives who are not sleeping are not performing at their best.
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