{"id":401,"date":"2015-03-11T23:49:50","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T23:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/extra\/?p=401"},"modified":"2015-05-28T17:37:58","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T17:37:58","slug":"sleep-researcher-asks-if-flexible-work-hours-will-improve-sleep-schedules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/research\/sleep-researcher-asks-if-flexible-work-hours-will-improve-sleep-schedules\/","title":{"rendered":"Sleep Researcher Asks if Flexible Work Hours Will Improve Sleep Schedules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have flexible work hours? If not, you may have a case to show your boss that you deserve one, all thanks to a WSU Spokane researcher.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>(Don&#8217;t blame us for any workplace disagreements)<\/p>\n<p>Gemma Paech is a Research Associate in our Sleep and Performance Research Center. She <a href=\"http:\/\/theconversation.com\/could-flexible-working-hours-be-the-answer-to-the-sleep-loss-epidemic-38213\" target=\"_blank\">penned an article for TheConversation.com<\/a> that looks at whether flexible work hours will help sleep schedules, leading to healthier people.<\/p>\n<p>As Paech notes, lifestyles greatly impact sleep schedules and not everyone is alike &#8211; some with kids have extra responsibilities that impact sleep, while others might be night owls.<\/p>\n<p>Paech references a study that showed flexible work hours did show a slight increase in sleep time, though not significantly. Still, an increase is still an increase.<\/p>\n<p>She also says that activities like going out with friends (which could impact your sleep schedule) can reduce stress, which is a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It might be a small change, but any improvement in sleep duration and quality, no matter how small, is a move in the right direction towards reducing the sleep deficiency experienced by adults,&#8221; she writes. &#8220;Over time, this extra hour of sleep each week could lead to positive health affects.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We suggest giving the article a read and considering your own sleep schedule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have flexible work hours? If not, you may have a case to show your boss that you deserve one, all thanks to a WSU Spokane researcher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":[],"featured_media":403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[437],"tags":[632,497,447],"wsuwp_university_location":[],"wsuwp_university_org":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/528"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":592,"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions\/592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/author?post=401"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=401"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}