难怪我们会觉得累,平均每个英国人每晚才睡这么一会儿
The average Brit gets just five hours solid sleep a night, starts dealing with work emails at 7.50am - and takes SIX out-of-hours calls after leaving the office each week, a study has found. Researchers also discovered they clock up around two-and-a-half hours of unpaid overtime per week, and answer nine work-related emails on their commute home. The typical worker also has to deal with 55 emails a day - and doesn't finally get to 'switch off' until around 5.55pm. Worryingly, the stats also showed workers are able to squeeze in a lunchbreak lasting just 25 minutes. A whopping 74 per cent believe their busy lives are having an effect on their health and wellbeing, with four in ten admitting their hectic lifestyles leaves them feeling tired or low in energy, while 38 per cent reckon they suffer from stress as a result. Others believe it leads to them struggling to sleep, being in a bad mood and being more prone to falling ill. The survey was designed by new vitamin and supplement brand Nature's Bounty polling 2,000 working adults across the UK between the ages of 20-40. Paul Chamberlain, Head of Nutrition at www.naturesbounty.co.uk, said: "Our lives are becoming far busier than ever before as we juggle longer working hours and more stressful jobs with managing our personal lives as well." "But this pressure is clearly having an effect on our health as people sleep fewer hours and work far longer than the traditional 9-5." "Despite the stresses and strains you may face at work, and once you leave office, it's important to take time for yourself in order to be able to cope with the demands of modern life. It's clear that we need help to counter these symptoms." The subject of modern workloads proved a sore point for many of those who took part. Forty-five per cent said they agreed we generally work harder than our predecessors and another 63 per cent said they felt their day-to-day tasks were more stressful than workers would have had to endure a couple of decades ago. It also emerged more than one in four felt 'stressed out' at the end of the working day, while 16 per cent said they arrived home 'worried'. |