This makes sense - especially considering young people are naturally more night-owl-ish, so to speak. It recommends start times of, at the earliest, 8:30 a.m. This, I'm guessing, wouldn't surprise many folks at the CDC, which thinks far too many middle and high schools start too early, robbing students of vital rest. Tardiness fell, grades went up, and more students showed up ready to learn. And officials noticed big changes - immediately. So the school pushed its start time back from 7:25 a.m. "We didn’t want students to fall back to sleep." “At one point, we asked teachers not to turn off lights or show movies,” former principal Tom Conrad told The Boston Globe this past March. On the other hand, some research suggests more flexible work schedules make us happier, healthier, and - get this - even more productive. economy sheds over $63 billion in productivity losses each year due to lack of sleep among workers. This collective sleepiness ends up costing us.Īccording to a study out of Harvard University, the U.S. And, believe it or not, when these tired Americans - a disproportionate number of them night owls, I'd imagine - stumble into the office each morning with their eyes half-shut, they aren't on their A-game. Everyone wins when employers think of their workers less like robots programmed to turn on at dawn and more like, say, humans.Īs I'm sure you know by now, many Americans don't get enough sleep. In fact, some studies have suggested we might be more creative, " more intelligent" (researchers' words, not mine), and have bigger incomes than our early bird counterparts. Yet they live on, making night owl-types feel less than.
You like to stay up late and sleep in, so you're lazy and on the fast track to failure.
Stereotypes about night owls and late sleepers are baseless and harmful.
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