Workers who typically get a poor night's sleep -- estimated to be 7 percent of the U.S. workforce -- report more than double the rate of unplanned absenteeism compared with other workers, resulting in an estimated $44.6 billion in lost productivity each year.
Poor sleepers reported 2.29 days of unplanned missed workdays in the past month due to poor health, compared with 0.91 days for all other workers. These estimates are after controlling for factors that can affect both sleep and health-related absenteeism, including all major demographics, general overall health, clinical depression/anxiety, significant daily stress and COVID-19.
Workers' sleep quality is based on respondents' self-reports of how well they slept in the past 30 days -- as either excellent, very good, good, fair or poor.
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