Reducing #WorkFamily Conflict in #Workplace Helps Improve #Sleep

January 26, 2015
Reducing #WorkFamily Conflict in #Workplace Helps Improve #Sleep

A study by a team of researchers from the Work, Family & Health Network has found that an intervention designed to reduce conflict between work and familial responsibilities has also been found to be effective at improving sleep. The study is published in the inaugural issue of Sleep Health, the journal of the National Sleep Foundation, and has been featured in articles in The Boston Globe, Entrepreneur, Medical Daily, Philly.comGantDailyFuturity, The Huffington Post and Inc. Learn more in this EurekAlert! release.

“Here we showed that an intervention focused on changing the workplace culture could increase the measured amount of sleep employees obtain, as well as their perception that their sleep was more sufficient,” noted lead investigator Orfeu M. Buxton, PhD, Pennsylvania State University (with secondary appointments at Harvard and Brigham and Women’s Hospital). “Work can be a calling and inspirational, as well as a paycheck, but work should not be detrimental to health. It is possible to mitigate some of the deleterious effects of work by reducing work-family conflict, and improving sleep.”