Does Your Job Cause Insomnia?

You would think that night workers or shift workers might suffer the worst in sleep patterns.

Or maybe people with lots of stress, such as doctors working in the emergency room or the police.

And this may be true. However, a new study in the Journal of Sleep Research illustrates that a different kind of job that is often overlooked. But this is the kind of job that more and more people are taking on.

It is becoming increasingly common for people to work in the so-called gig economy, or in contract jobs with poor job security.

To learn how these kinds of jobs affected sleep, researchers asked 24,553 workers aged between 25 and 65 across 31 European countries whether they had suffered from insomnia or other sleep difficulties over the past year.

They also asked them about their jobs and their security within these jobs.

When they combined the results for all European countries, they found that people who were insecure job wise were likelier to report insomnia.

In fact, with everyone unit lowered in job security, their chance of suffering from sleep difficulties rose by 47%.

The conclusion held for people of all ages, for both genders, for locals and immigrants, all household sizes, all types of domestic relationship statuses, any number of children, all education levels, all income levels, all workplace sectors, and all workplace sizes.

The good news is that anyone can be fast asleep in 10 minutes using the simple technique found here…