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Posted on: Sunday, March 23, 2008

Lack of sleep affects employees' work

Compiled by John MacIntyre

  • Percentage of U.S. workers who say they have become very sleepy or fallen asleep at work in the past month, according to a survey conducted by the National Sleep Foundation: 29

  • Percentage of U.S. workers who say they have arrived late at work in the past month because of sleepiness: 12

  • Percentage of U.S. workers with more than one job who say they get a good night's sleep only a "few times" a month or less: 43

  • Number of Americans who chronically suffer from sleep problems and disorders: 50 million

    STRIKE IT RICH

  • Ranks of Warren Buffett (net worth: $63 billion) and Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim Helu ($60 billion) among the world's richest people as of Feb. 11, 2008, according to a study conducted by Forbes: 1, 2

  • Number of Americans among the world's 20 richest people in 2006: 10

  • Number of Americans among the world's 20 richest people in 2008: 4

  • Number of Indians among the world's 10 richest people (more than any other country): 4

    BUCKLE UP

  • Cost of traffic crashes each year in the U.S., according to a study conducted by the AAA that calculates cost based on property damage, lost earnings, medical costs, emergency services, legal costs and travel delays: $164.2 billion

  • Cost of car crashes each year in New York and Los Angeles, the two largest U.S. cities with the highest cumulative annual car crash costs, respectively: $18 billion, $10 billion

    BUSINESS-MINDED

    Percentage of small-business owners who say they plan to retire and stop working completely in their businesses in the long run, according to the Wells Fargo/Gallup Small Business Index survey: 11

    Percentage of small-business owners who say they expect their small businesses to keep going after they stop working: 62

    Percentage who feel their businesses will stop: 33

    ON THE HOME FRONT

    U.S. homeowners' equity in their homes in the fourth quarter of 2007, according to the U.S. Federal Reserve: 47.9 percent

    Year in which Americans' equity in their homes last fell below 50 percent, based on data tracked since 1945: Never

    IN THE MONEY

    Percentage of employees who live paycheck to paycheck, according to a recent study by the American Payroll Association: 67

    In 2008, a leap year, number of extra paychecks that employees paid on Tuesdays or Wednesdays can expect to receive: 1

    TAX METER

    Percentage of Americans who filed their tax returns by mid-February 2008, according to a survey conducted by BIGresearch: 28.5

    Percentage of Americans who will prepare their tax return using a computer software program: 31.5

    Percentage who will do it by hand: 14.7

    Percentage who will use an accountant: 23.5

    Percentage who will use a tax preparation service: 18.7

    Percentage who will have a spouse, friend or other relative handle it: 11.6

    GET TO WORK

    Percentage of workers who said their jobs would be more difficult if they did not work in the same office as their supervisors, according to a survey developed by OfficeTeam: 48

    Of this group, percentage who felt it would be much more difficult: 27

    Percentage of managers who said it is important that all staff members work in the same location: 58

    THE REAL WORLD

    Percentage of college students seeking jobs who say they expect it will take them only three or fewer months to find a job, according to a poll conducted by CollegeRecruiter in March 2008: 74

    Percentage who said the same in January and February 2008, respectively: 69, 65

    INVESTMENT REPORT

    Dollars invested in 221 "clean technology" deals worldwide in 2007, according to data released by Dow Jones VentureSource: $3 billion

    Percentage increase from the $2.1 billion invested in 173 similar deals in 2006: 43

    Percentage of global clean-technology investment in 2007 accounted for by the United States, according to the report: 83

    IDLE THOUGHT

    "Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself."

    — Tom Wilson

    Reach John MacIntyre at johnmacintyre@bwr.eastlink.ca.
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