HR managers have made it into the top five tardiest professions for oversleeping in the mornings and coming to work late.
These are the findings of budget hotel chain Travelodge who reveal that a whopping 6 million workers oversleep every day. All this extra snoozing is costing businesses a huge £619 million a year in lost productivity, according to the hotel outfit.
The average British worker is around five minutes late for work, twice a month, which equates to an alarming 89 hours, or nearly three weeks, over a working lifetime. IT workers are named and shamed as the nation’s doziest, turning up late on average three days a month, amounting to approximately six years spread across the duration of their career.
The top five tardiest professions are:
- IT and internet workers
- Call centre staff
- Telecommunications staff
- Secretaries and PA’s
- HR managers
Wayne Munnelly, director of sleep for Travelodge, commented: “Creative excuses such as watching UFO’s, wrestling with wildlife or getting lost on the way to work cannot mask the real reason for our nation’s tardiness. The tendency to oversleep clearly demonstrates that this country is in the grip of a sleep-deprivation epidemic. A shocking 28.1 million (97 per cent) British workers are getting less than the recommended eight hours of sleep every night of the working week and the subsequent inability to wake up is having a significant knock-on effect on the productivity of UK businesses.”
The research surveyed 1,500 UK adults and was conducted by Onepoll in June 2007.
