For self-confessed workaholics for whom 16-hour workdays are common, whose e-mail baskets fill up with hundreds of messages, even on a Sunday, the space fills a powerful need.
One concern is the long shifts (12- and 13-hour workdays are common), which among some nurses are popular, because it may mean fewer days per week.
It also contains the quote: "In Sweden, the six-hour workday is becoming common".
Cultures where workday naps are not common would do well to learn from those where it is.
Men had more physical activity than women; physical activity was more common during days off than during workdays, especially among men.
During workdays, physical activity was most common early in the morning and right after working hours, whereas physical activity was distributed more evenly throughout the day during days off.
Occupational low back pain (LBP) is alarmingly common[ 1, 2], with a 100 million workdays lost in the United States each year[ 3].
For example, a common cause of many prolonged turnovers in the middle of the workday is gaps between cases of different surgeons following each other in the same OR [ 2].
According to the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, twenty-two million school days and twenty million workdays in adults are lost annually due to the common cold in the USA.
Aarstol attributes much of his continued success to the company switching to a five-hour-workday last June, a marked difference from the 80-hour grind common in startup culture.
