Insomnia causes loss of $63.2B in productivity every year- Study

A latest research reveals that U.S. economy is losing on account of productivity, up to $63.2 billion per year, owing to sleepless nights of its workers.

A new appraisal of 7,428 U.S. employees, registered under federal health plans, detected that nearly 23 percent workers suffered from sleep disorder. The expert calculations also determined that this sleep disorder or insomnia, led to an annual loss of 11.3 days of productivity.

The wastage of 11.3 days per year, if counted in terms of money, bears an average loss of $2,280 per employee.

The entire detailed study is issued in the ‘Sleep’ magazine. The findings explain that sound sleep is extremely beneficial for getting out the best from the workers; and thereby making an optimum utilization of labor resources.

Insomnia more abortive than absenteeism
A thorough survey was compiled to found out the total time lost due to insomnia. The experts formed meager work performance as the basis for determining the lost work time.

Ronald Kessler, a psychiatric epidemiologist at Harvard Medical School’s health-care policy department, shared in this context, “We were shocked by the enormous impact insomnia has on the average person’s life… Americans are not missing work because of insomnia. They are still going to their jobs but accomplishing less because they’re tired.”

Merck & Co. backed up the research, while Sanofi-Aventis SA financed the employees’ survey. Sanofi-Aventis trades for the prescription sleep medicine, called Ambien.

The study also stressed the earlier research statistics that around 70 million people in U.S. or one-third of the grownup populace are struggling with sleeping disorder.