Business
Being properly rested is an important step towards accomplishing your goals in the business world; on the other hand, having a high pressure, high stress job can make deep sleep elusive or even impossible. Happily, using the Speed Sleep techniques can alleviate stress by making high quality sleep possible every night, as well as giving you the means to grab brief and intense power naps. After all, enthusiasm and a high energy level are of the key ingredients of success.
Business Travel
British Airways is at the forefront of innovation when it come to understanding the needs of business travelers. The airlines was the first to launch flat beds in its Club World Business class on flights between North America and London. It is now introducing softer, more comfortable seat foams with the latest technology to enable better sleep. The airline is also providing a Sleeper Service which includes such passenger amenities as pre-flight dining, a more tranquil cabin with fewer announcements and a nightcap service with hot chocolate and cookies.“Our goal is to help business class passengers get the most sleep possible during flight so they are at peak performance when they arrive at their destination,” said Robin Hayes.
Sleepless in Small Business
98 percent of U.S. small-business owners and managers are working during gtheir time off – including nights, weekends and vacations and nearly
54 percent expect ot work even harder in 2008.
Business owners often say that there just isn’t enough hours in the day so business activity is
invading their sleep time.
More small-business owners and managers are working harder than ever to make their business dreams come true…even while they sleep. According to the 2nd Annual Staples National Small-business Survey, more than half of small-business professionals said that work has actually become part of their dreams. Fifty-one percent of those surveyed said that they “sleepwork” (dream about work), and nearly 70 percent of those “sleepworkers” report they wake up and put their “work dreams” to action.
--from Business Wire/ January 3, 2008
Business travelers are simply not getting enough sleep, according to a new survey conducted by British Airways and Research International. Out of 1,000 professionals surveyed, 25 percent admitted to falling asleep in a meeting due to sleep deprivation, and 70 percent felt they were less productive after traveling. Nearly one in five had a presentation to go badly or lost business as a result to poor sleep due to air travel.
Citing work stress, family demands and frequent travel, the average overnight business traveler gets less than the seven to nine hours sleep per night recommended by the National Sleep Foundation. They lose even more sleep during air travel. According to the survey, business travelers only sleep for an average of three hours on overnight flights in economy class and four hours in business and first.
--from PR Newswire 30-March-05