Britons not getting enough sleep

[AB Asks]

Stress and long-working hours means Britons are suffering from too many sleepless nights. A tiny 3 per cent of workers got their eight hours sleep a night, and one in ten people admitted to taking a day off work after a sleepless night. Workers also claimed their productivity at work was affected after a sleepless night. The key to solving the problem is find what causes the stress that keeps people awake and to then deal with this issue. What do you think? Do you suffer from sleepless nights due to work related problems? Or do people just need to find out how to relax?

[oldfashioned]

Some people might get a bit more sleep if you closed this site down at 11.30 pm. ha ha ha .

[ummmm]

That is very true oldfashioned......

[stewey]

This is a good question. I think that we should give a bunch of boffins a bunch of money and they can do a scientific study of this serious situation.

[Octavius]

The idea of 8 hours work, 8 hours play and 8 hours rest is a Victorian ideal that is outdated. Different people need different amounts of sleep in order to function, so if anyone is being less productive because they are sleeping less then they are being incompetent at their job. Perhaps they should sacrifice some of the 8 hours play time.

People need to learn to count sheep. 1, 2 , 3 zzzzzzzzz

[crete]

or maybe even GOATS.

[Skreecheeboy]

I think automobiles are to blame for this problem, if people had to walk to work in the morning or ride a bike they'd be able to sleep perfectly well, and live longer too. Everyone is just too lazy these days and then they can't sleep because they've done nothing to tire themselves out.

[nat_84]

Only bloody thing that keeps me awake is my boyfriend snoring in my ear hole all night!!!

[Roughquest]

On average I think I one or two good nights sleep a week, and you can bet that every Saturday morning that comes round and I dont have to get up early for work, I CANT SLEEP !!!! I dont worry about work, but I do worry about silly things, niggly things that once get in my head keep me awake ! I do sleep better when my partner is in bed (had i got one lol)....

[bensmum]

I would love to be able to sleep for more than 2 hours at a time - can't remeber the last time I slept for a 6 hour stretch all at once. And roughquest is right about weekends - somehow on Saturday and Sunday I'm awake before 6am and I really don't need to be! Of course when I need to be up on Monday I could sleep in