Month: December 2006

Sleeping too much is also bad for your health…

By now most of us are all too aware that not getting enough sleep is bad for us, but it seems that sleeping too much may also have negative health effects. According to a study discussed in this CNN.com article,

“The study showed people who slept nine or 10 hours per night had a risk of dying similar to that associated with moderate obesity. Risk of death increased by 15 percent for those who slept eight hours a night, 20 percent for those who get 9 hours of sleep and 35 to 40 percent for those who sleep 10 hours a night.“

The article is quick to point out that the study is not unanimously accepted among sleep specialists,

“The data can’t be used to establish a cause and effect relationship because there are flaws in the study,” said Dr. Russell Rosenberg, director of the Northside Hospital Sleep Medicine Institute in Atlanta.”


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Important:
The Sleep Blog does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Instead, this website provides general information for educational purposes only. Always seek the advice of a qualified health care provider if you have questions or concerns regarding any medical condition or treatment.

Snoozester News – Corporate Wake Up Calls and Other Services for Businesses

We recently launched Snoozester Business Solutions, a suite of business-oriented services based on the Snoozester Engine. The Snoozester Engine, the same platform we use to deliver Snoozester wake up calls, can now be used to create custom notification and reminder calls. Businesses can use Snoozester to automate processes such as reminding customers about scheduled appointments, notifying customers of an upcoming sale or announcing the launch of a new product.

In addition to notification and reminder calls, we are pleased to announce that we have also begun offering a corporate wake up call service. The new service allows businesses to subscribe to a Corporate Snoozester Account, and then offer a wake up call service to employees as a benefit. Participating employees enjoy all the benefits of a corporate account, but they still choose the phone numbers and call times for each of their Snoozester wake up calls. Learn more by:

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Important:
The Sleep Blog does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Instead, this website provides general information for educational purposes only. Always seek the advice of a qualified health care provider if you have questions or concerns regarding any medical condition or treatment.

One more reason to get up and out on time

We’ve blogged quite a bit about different tools and methods people use to help them wake up on time, but we haven’t posted much about the consequences of oversleeping. Aside from the toll it can impose on your general well-being, chronic lateness can and does have significant financial consequences. We recently came across an older, but still very relevant USA Today article that discusses just that. The article focuses primarily on lateness in the corporate world. Some highlights:

  • If Citigroup CEO Sanford Weill arrives 15 minutes late to a meeting with his four best-paid lieutenants, it costs the company $4,250.
  • French executives were late to more meetings than U.S. executives, 65% vs. 60%. Japanese CEOs were the most punctual, late 34% of the time.
  • Some companies have meeting rules that involve late fees of up to $5 a minute, but those are most common at companies where the CEO is punctual.

While this article concentrates the mostly on executives and being late, it is easy to see that, no matter where you are on the corporate “totem pole,” lateness can have a significant finanical cost to organizations.

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Important:
The Sleep Blog does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Instead, this website provides general information for educational purposes only. Always seek the advice of a qualified health care provider if you have questions or concerns regarding any medical condition or treatment.