We now know that 24 hours without sleep, or a week of sleeping four or five hours a night induces an impairment equivalent to a blood alcohol level of .1 percent. We would never say, ‘This person is a great worker! He’s drunk all the time!’ yet we continue to celebrate people who sacrifice sleep for work.
Insights from the doctor who coaches athletes on sleep. Pair with the science of what actually happens while you sleep and how it affects your every waking hour.
More on sleep here.
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My dad is a pilot, and this fact has always been such serious irony whne it comes to his job. Because the sleep deprivation is terrible in his job. They would straight up fire him if they even THOUGHT he was drunk while flying but wow they’re totally fine with making him fly like 4 trips with barely any time to sleep in between.
Seriously. They are only reqired to give him 8 hours exactly, and that includes time to get to hotels and time to get up get ready and get to work, so he usually only gets about 5 tops. And then he has to go fly a 16 hour flight. and then repeat the whole thing for days