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Flexible working hours are good for health
This conclusion was reached by doctors who studied how changes in the work schedule affect the amount and quality of sleep.
"Lack of sleep leads to the fact that a person cannot concentrate, he becomes unassembled, information is perceived and processed more slowly, it is difficult to make decisions in this state," says the lead author of the study, Orfeu M. Buxton from the University of Pennsylvania.
According to him, according to a study by the Centers for Disease Control, approximately 30% of American adults experience a lack of sleep. Such a common and widespread phenomenon leads to many unpleasant consequences: due to lack of sleep, the risk of car accidents increases, and the likelihood of developing chronic diseases increases.
474 people took part in the study of Buxton and his colleagues, their employers also participated in the work, who agreed that their employees should switch to a flexible work schedule. The employees themselves decided whether to work remotely from home or come to the office every day. They could also start work at a time that they themselves considered appropriate. At the same time, the participants of the experiment noted daily at what time they went to bed and when they woke up.
A year later, the scientists analyzed the results and compared them with the results of a control group in which people worked on a regular fixed schedule.
As expected, the participants in the experiment, in which the work schedule was flexible, spent more time sleeping every day. However, their sleep lasted only eight minutes longer than that of people from the control group with a fixed schedule. But they noted that their sleep quality improved and they began to feel better.
"Work can inspire a person, stimulate his activity, but work should not harm health. You can mitigate the negative effect by properly planning the time, and most importantly, by improving the quality of sleep," says Buxton.
The results of a study on how flexible schedules improve the quantity and quality of sleep are published in the latest issue of the journal Sleep Health (Olson et al., A workplace intervention improves sleep: results from the randomized controlled Work, Family, and Health Study; a press release Flexible work schedules improve health, sleep is published on The Pennsylvania website State University – VM).
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