Forget diet and exercise. What you really need is more sleep

Inadequate rest is costing the Australian economy more than $66 billion a year. Of that figure, $17.9 billion is down to loss of productivity.

Sally PattenBOSS editor

Aug 18, 2022 – 9.13am

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If you’ve been awake for 19 hours straight, your brain function is equivalent to having a blood alcohol level of 0.5 per cent.

After two weeks of sleeping six hours a night, your performance declines to the same level as someone who had stayed awake for 24 hours, a study by the University of Pennsylvania shows.

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Sally PattenBOSS editorSally Patten edits BOSS, and writes about workplace issues. She was the financial services editor and personal finance editor of the AFR, The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald. She edited business news for The Times of London.