We all know sleep matters for job performance. After a week of vacation, you may find your work better than ever. But rack up a week of sleepless nights - say, following a polarizing presidential election - and you may find yourself struggling.
众所周知，睡眠会影响工作表现。休假一周后，你会发现自己工作表现前所未有的好。假如你因为两极分化的总统大选而持续失眠一周，那可能会非常痛苦。
It wouldn't surprise anyone that sleep affects attention, memory and cognition -
important factors in the workplace. But striking new research suggests the effect of additional sleep has a high
monetary value. A paper - from Matthew Gibson of Williams College and Jeffrey Shrader of the University of California at San Diego, based on data from Jawbone, the fitness- and sleep-tracker company - says that additional time sleeping can translate into thousands of dollars in wages.
In fact, they calculate that a one-hour increase in weekly sleep raises wages by about half as much as an additional year of education.
Now, the story is not so simple. Don't think you can start to sleep more and you will instantly make more money. It's more
about the subtle interplay between how people schedule their lives, how much time they have available to sleep and how that affects worker performance and, ultimately,
earnings.
Not all of these wage differences are due directly to sleep, the researchers caution. Some could be due to the
cumulative influence of other people. If the workers around you are made slightly more productive by sleeping better, that could make your work more productive, too.
The findings suggest that sleep is a crucial determinant of productivity and wages, "rivaling ability and human capital in importance," the researchers write.
Given the huge benefit that more sleep can bring, we should certainly pay more attention to ensuring that workers sleep more, they say.
相关单词：sleepless
sleepless解释：adj.不睡眠的，睡不著的，不休息的
sleepless例句：
The situation gave her many sleepless nights.这种情况害她一连好多天睡不好觉。
One evening I heard a tale that rendered me sleepless for nights.一天晚上，我听说了一个传闻，把我搞得一连几夜都不能入睡。
相关单词：monetary
monetary解释：adj.货币的，钱的；通货的；金融的；财政的
monetary例句：
The monetary system of some countries used to be based on gold.过去有些国家的货币制度是金本位制的。
Education in the wilderness is not a matter of monetary means.荒凉地区的教育不是钱财问题。
相关单词：earnings
earnings解释：n.工资收人；利润，利益，所得
earnings例句：
That old man lives on the earnings of his daughter.那个老人靠他女儿的收入维持生活。
Last year there was a 20% decrease in his earnings.去年他的收入减少了20%。
相关单词：cumulative
cumulative解释：adj.累积的，渐增的
cumulative例句：
This drug has a cumulative effect.这种药有渐增的效力。
The benefits from eating fish are cumulative.吃鱼的好处要长期才能显现。
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