{"id":4066,"date":"2013-02-18T10:24:19","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T15:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/citings\/?p=4066"},"modified":"2013-02-18T10:24:19","modified_gmt":"2013-02-18T15:24:19","slug":"relax-for-productivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2013\/02\/18\/relax-for-productivity\/","title":{"rendered":"Slow Down to Pick Up the Pace"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4067\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4067\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adamjlynch\/3275087576\/in\/photostream\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4067\" alt=\"Photo by Adam Lynch via flickr.com\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/citings\/files\/2013\/02\/Desk-Nap-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2013\/02\/Desk-Nap-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2013\/02\/Desk-Nap.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4067\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Adam Lynch via flickr.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It seems like there\u2019s never enough time: today&#8217;s workplaces demand efficiency and getting more done in less time. Workers cut down on breaks, vacation, and precious sleep. Luckily, Tony Schwartz brings good news in his op-ed for the <i>New York Times<\/i>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A new and growing body of multidisciplinary research shows that strategic renewal&#8212;including daytime workouts, short afternoon naps, longer sleep hours, more time away from the office and longer, more frequent vacations&#8212;boosts productivity, job performance and, of course, health.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In a country where \u201cmore than 50 percent [of workers] assume they\u2019ll work during their vacations,\u201d \u201can average of 9.2 vacation days [go] unused,\u201d and \u201csleep deprivation costs American companies $63.2 billion a year in lost productivity,\u201d these midday renewals offer much needed relief. Schwartz cites study after study showing everything from a full night\u2019s sleep improving basketball performance to naps improving memory test results and alertness and reaction time among air traffic controllers. Another study found:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Working in 90-minute intervals turns out to be a prescription for maximizing productivity. Professor K. Anders Ericsson and his colleagues at Florida State University have studied elite performers, including musicians, athletes, actors and chess players. In each of these fields, Dr. Ericsson found that the best performers typically practice in uninterrupted sessions that last no more than 90 minutes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Next time you find yourself joking about needing a nap, pull up that carpet square, kindergarten style. Those kids know what they\u2019re up to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems like there\u2019s never enough time: today&#8217;s workplaces demand efficiency and getting more done in less time. Workers cut down on breaks, vacation, and precious sleep. Luckily, Tony Schwartz brings good news in his op-ed for the New York Times: A new and growing body of multidisciplinary research shows that strategic renewal&#8212;including daytime workouts, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39074],"tags":[131,2666,143,642,5018,76],"class_list":["post-4066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sightings","tag-economy","tag-efficiency","tag-labor","tag-productivity","tag-sleep","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4066"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4071,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4066\/revisions\/4071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}