On the routine of the day of people, it is customary to divide on "Sov" and "Zhavoronkov". The first felt the tide of cheerfulness at night, so it is too late to sleep and prefer to wake up later. The second best feels in the afternoon, so it falls to bed early and also get up early. It so happened that modern life is more adjusted under the larks: most companies start working until 9:00 am, which is not very convenient for owls. They are more often the rest come to work by non-wisp and, accordingly, they work worse. It sounds quite logical, but is it really? A replication of the answer to this question did Finnish scientists and for this they studied personal data about thousands of residents of Finland. Now I will tell you what conclusions they came during the study.
The most productive people
The results of the scientific work were published in Occupational & Environmental Medicine Scientific Journal. To find out how sleep mode affects the productivity of people, scientists studied the Northern Finland Birth Cohort database. It contains information about 12,058 people who were born in 1966. When participants were 46 years old, they passed a survey, where they indicated information about labor successes, health and day. It is thanks to all this data it is possible to find out how the habits of owls and the larks affect their productivity and health.
It is important to note that as a result, only 2672 men and 3159 women were admitted to the study. After all, from all these people, not everyone had a permanent place of work, and every participant was unlikely to fill out a questionnaire.
As expected, the owls turned out to be less productive during the working day than the larks. Moreover, most of them had more health problems and a tendency to loneliness. It is not difficult to guess that all this is the consequence of an insufficient amount of sleep. Information in different sources is different, but usually owls fall to bed after midnight, so they need to get up at about 9 am. The larks lay down to sleep at about 22:00 and get up at 6 am. But at the same time, those and others are forced to be at work for 9 o'clock, therefore owls often suffer from the lack of sleep, and the fasteners are not particular problems.
Harm shortage of sleep
In insufficient number of sleep, a lot of negative consequences. Scientists have long ago found that the lack of saws increases the risk of developing cardiovascular diseases, including deadly heart attack and stroke. Also, people with a lack of sleep are more often an increased blood pressure, diabetes mellitus and a decrease in immunity. Do not forget about the tendency to obesity, because often the owls are late for work and are forced to use fast food. We wrote about the dangers of such food many times. There is an article describing that Fast Food increases the risk of infertility.
Research authors once again recalled that employers should consider the chronotype of each employee and use this data to compile the work schedule. Everything would have won this. First, people with a lack of sleep would have the opportunity to improve their health. Secondly, companies could notice how the productivity of people increased after the introduced changes. But it is not all ready to take into account the chronotypes. Most of our planet on the side of the larks.
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Advantage of remote work
However, during the coronavirus pandemic, many employees were transferred to the remote. Thanks to the work from the house, people do not need to spend time and money on the road. Consequently, the owls have the opportunity to relax the necessary time, and the larks can use the vacant time for personal classes. Some companies are already seriously intended to leave all their employees on the distance, because the pros often outweigh the minuses. After all, in addition to all available advantages, employers do not need to pay rental for offices.
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It is worth noting that, in addition to owls and larks, there are pigeons among people. This is the name of a chronotype, in which a person falls closer to midnight and gets only a little more larks. That is, pigeons are something average between the two main chronotypes. But these chronotypes can be divided into several subspecies. More about this I wrote in here. The topic is very interesting and cognitive, so I recommend reading!