Bidirectional Relationships Between Sleep and Work

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• Personal Author:
  Buxton OM ; Shea SA
• Description:
  For most people, work is inextricably linked with home life and the amount, timing, and quality of sleep. While the recent novel coronavirus pandemic changed work practices for billions of people, this global change had already started with more and more people working at home, sometimes morning, evening, and night, under increasingly uncertain employment conditions. In addition, our work, home life, and sleep can compete for time, particularly in the face of second and third jobs, flexible schedules, night shift work, unstable work practices, and the emergence of the gig economy. The inevitable compromises, when not well-managed, can result in suboptimal sleep, suboptimal work, and suboptimal home life. Even if time for work, sleep, and leisure can be effectively separated, they still all affect each other. For instance, stress at work can affect subsequent sleep, and the quality and amount of sleep, in turn, can affect subsequent work performance. In this special issue of Sleep Health, there are 20 original research articles from 7 countries that describe the enormity of the issues related to sleep health across work settings, populations, and specific conditions; their impact on workplace productivity and worker health; and interventions to help workers, managers, and workplaces address their priorities and manage these competing demands. By recognizing and publicizing the importance of these interactions, we hope to stimulate researchers to develop and evaluate solutions to the global concern of poor sleep degrading work and quality of life and work degrading health, including sleep health. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Circadian Rhythm Occupational Health Safety Sleep Sleep Initiation And Maintenance Disorders Viral Diseases Workplace
• Keywords:
  Circadian Rhythms Humans Intervention Quality Of Life Quality Of Work Life QWL Sleep Deprivation Sleep Disorders Stress Total Worker Health TWH Viral Diseases Work-life Balance Worker Health Workers Work Performance Workplace Studies Work Schedules

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• ISSN:
  2352-7218
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Oregon ; OSHA Region 10 ; OSHA Region 3 ; Pennsylvania
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  259-261
• Volume:
  6
• Issue:
  3
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20061090
• Citation:
  Sleep Health 2020 Jun; 6(3):259-261
• Contact Point Address:
  Orfeu M. Buxton, PhD, Department of Biobehavioral Health, Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania, USA
• Email:
  orfeu@sleephealthjournal.org
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2020
• NORA Priority Area:
  Services ; Transportation, Warehousing and Utilities
• Performing Organization:
  Oregon Health & Science University, Portland
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20110901
• Source Full Name:
  Sleep Health
• End Date:
  20260831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7465d8ad490f431a7e1f048aad284d3324046918c262c358bdc29fee17839087b4c1d79d6ce206d12e8f8b08da5c693c1051e8b12842114446b9b19c2306cae3
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/224759/cdc_224759_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 280.70 KB ]