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April 1st, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
By
Leon Watson
10:04 EST, 1 April 2012
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10:04 EST, 1 April 2012
One in three Brits are putting their jobs before their health and not getting good enough sleep, research revealed today.
According to the study, some suffer from such poor sleep they experience a sense of drunkenness at work.
Some employees get less than five hours sleep a night and only one in seven feels completely refreshed when they wake up.
A study by Vielife, the health and productivity firm, found some workers are so tired they experience a feeling of drunkenness
The study also found more women have poor sleep than men.
The alarming findings were from self-assessments completed by 38,784 staff working in the UK.
They were staff at firms such as telecoms firm O2, drugs developer Quintiles and medical technology manufacturer Medtronic.
A third were dissatisfied with the amount and quality of their sleep, with 8.4 per cent saying they were ‘very unhappy’ with it and another 24.4 per cent describing themselves as ‘unhappy’.
When asked how they felt 30 minutes after getting up, only 15.5 per cent said ‘refreshed’. Of the others, 3.3 per cent said they were ‘exhausted’, 24 per cent said ‘unrefreshed’ and 57.2 per cent were still ‘a little tired’.
While experts say that everyone should ideally get seven to eight hours sleep a night, only 38.5 per cent of the 38,784 respondents did so.
Employees of mobile phone giant O2 were among those taking part in the survey
More had between five and seven hours (45 per cent) and 5.4 per cent existed on less than five hours, though a lucky 10 per cent reported sleeping for eight to nine hours and one in 100 enjoyed more than nine hours.
When researchers combined those results to give each respondent an overall ‘sleep score’ out of 100, some 33.8 per cent got a mark of less than 30 – the lowest category.
That means someone either has, or is at high risk of developing, a sleeping problem.
Dr Tony Massey is medical director of
Vielife, the health and productivity firm that carried out the
assessments between 2009 and 2011.
He told The Observer: ‘This research is telling us that a large number of working adults, one in three in the UK, has a sleeping problem.
‘A very concerning number of British workers get too little sleep.’
The problems faced by at least half and up to 80 per cent of these one in three are so acute that their GP could diagnose them with a sleep disorder, he said.
He had expected to find about one in 10 employees suffering such chronic sleep problems ‘but this widespread lack of sleep is beyond what I’d imagined’.
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I thought all british workers were Lazy ???????? or that is what we are meant to believe
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Tell me something i dont know!
Living like this is commonplace for me!
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It’s not ‘sleep disorders’: it’s the too-high expectations of the modern workplace coupled with the hectic nature of the modern lifestyle. I have to wake at 5.30 to get to work for 7.30/8.00. I don’t get in again till 5.30/6.00pm. Then it’s bathe, eat, help the kids with their homework and it’s already 9.00. A couple of hours ‘downtime’ after they go to bed (if I’m lucky – often it’s back to the work I brought home), then I’m lucky to get six hours sleep a night. No time for exercise, literally. No time to read, watch a movie, socialise. Feel exhausted the whole day. Everyday is a grind having to get up at an ungodly hour. This is not life: just existence.
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I know the feelin…Zzzzzzz.
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What’s ‘sleep’. Oh yes,the dictionary says “something most people did on a daily basis before 1980 but is now done only by children, university students, and the retired. Especially by the middle group before 12 noon”.
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A third of workers? Well, by the time Dave and Nick have finished that won’t be many.
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That’s awful!!! I’m shocked to see there are so many people in this position. My suspicion is that a much higher percentage of the working population are working antisocial hours than used to be the case for my generation. Most of us Mid-Lifers expected to finish work at 5/5.30pm (unless we had a shop job – in which case – make that 6pm). Then we would start our evening social life at 7pm-8pm (or go straight from work to evening classes starting at 6pm). We would have a few hours socialising and then go to bed at a normal sort of time. Frankly – I cant see how, say, a callcentre worker or supermarket employee finishing work at 8pm can manage to get home/change/go out for the evening and get to bed at a normal time. It just won’t be possible for people having to work these antisocial hours – so I imagine the lack of sleep is down to many of them insisting (and who can blame them?) on having an “evening out” when they want – but then obviously there won’t be time for that and sleep!!
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Old news, very old news, how much did someone get paid to recycle that chestnut.
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I once suffered from dreadful insomnia, I would lay awake all night desperately trying to get some sleep, I tried several things from the doctor and loads of over the counter stuff, nothing worked, and in truth things got so bad I thought it would be the death of me, then I tried Paul McKenna’s ‘I Can Make You Sleep’ book and CD, more out of desperation than anything else, I didn’t read the book I just used the CD and it worked, I haven’t had a problem sleeping since, pretty much the moment my head hits the pillow I’m out cold, just brilliant, really brilliant!!! If you’re having the same problem try it, it has the added advantage of not being addictive unlike the stuff the doctor will give you.
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Because we are all to worried we are going to lose our jobs and struggle more then we are now!!
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