Sleeping on the Job

By way of USA Today’s On Deadline blog comes word of a new survey by the National Sleep Foundation that shows that many American workers are so overworked and sleep deprived that they’re dozing off at work and on their way to and from work. According to the survey, nearly 30 percent of the respondents said they had become sleepy or even nodded off at work during the last month, while an alarming 36 percent said they had dozed off behind the wheel of a car. If I weren’t so knackered, I’d be disturbed by those stats.

(Some academics, however, take naps on purpose, Jennifer Ruark reports in The Chronicle.)