Watching Those Middle-of-the-Night Soccer Games? Blame the Economy

A survey conducted in five countries around the globe found 40
percent of those questioned blame the state of the world economy as
the reason for their lack of sleep. The Royal Philips Electronics survey showed the
majority of respondents (61 percent) said their work was impacted
negatively by lack of sleep, at an average of 6.2 days a year.
Additional survey findings showed:

• The average manager is sleeping 19 percent less than the
  recommended eight hours a night.
• Americans are more likely than other nationalities to lose
  sleep through workplace stress, with 30 percent citing it as the
  reason they wake up during the night.
• The average amount of time it takes Americans to fall asleep
  — 26 minutes — is more than that of any other country
  surveyed.
• American men lead the world in snoring, with 29 percent snoring
  every night.

The study surveyed 2,500 managers equally split across the UK,
Germany, United States, Japan and The Netherlands.