Snoozester Sleep Blog

We’ve blogged quite a bit about different tools and methods people use to help them wake up on time, but we haven’t posted much about the consequences of oversleeping. Aside from the toll it can impose on your general well-being, chronic lateness can and does have significant financial consequences. We recently came across an older, but still very relevant USA Today article that discusses just that. The article focuses primarily on lateness in the corporate world. Some highlights:

• If Citigroup CEO Sanford Weill arrives 15 minutes late to a meeting with his four best-paid lieutenants, it costs the company $4,250.
• French executives were late to more meetings than U.S. executives, 65% vs. 60%. Japanese CEOs were the most punctual, late 34% of the time.
• Some companies have meeting rules that involve late fees of up to $5 a minute, but those are most common at companies where the CEO is punctual.

While this article concentrates the mostly on executives and being late, it is easy to see that, no matter where you are on the corporate “totem pole,” lateness can have a significant finanical cost to organizations.

For those of you interested in self-improvement, check out Steve Pavlina’s blog, “Personal Development for Smart People.”

Steve’s blog has some interesting and useful tips to make you more effective. We’ve linked to Steve before, a few of his posts relate to sleeping patterns and waking up on time:

• How to Become an Early Riser
• How to Become an Early Riser Part II
• How to Get Up Right Away When Your Alarm Goes Off
• Polyphasic Sleep

Drowsiness at work can hurt productivity . According to this article, a 2005 survey by the National Sleep Foundation found that 26 percent of adults get a good night’s sleep only a few nights a month or less. Another 24 percent say they get a good night’s sleep only a few nights a week. This has lead to increased sleepiness at work.

It is important to get enough sleep for physical and emotional health; this page describes good strategies for getting enough sleep (decreasing the amount of light and noise, going to bed at the same time each night, ect.)

Of course, getting enough sleep is just as important as waking up on time! Snoozester SecureAwake Wake Up Calls help you rise and shine.

This Alarm Clock Strategies page has information about making your alarm clock more effective by: setting the clock as far away from your bed as possible, getting another alarm clock, setting the alarm to a radio station, and of course, Set the alarm to radio static, as loud as possible. Also some information about alternatives to an alarm clock. Of course, we recommend using the Snoozester SecureAwake feature