Poor sleep costs over-50s nearly nine months of working life, study finds

Sleep disruption forces workers to exit careers earlier, disproportionately affecting lower-income and routine job workers, reducing lifetime earnings and economic security.

A Finnish study has placed a number on what exhausted workers have long felt in their bones: severe sleep disruption after 50 costs nearly nine months of working life, quietly eroding the financial security and autonomy that late-career years are meant to consolidate. The research reveals not merely a health finding but a social one — sleep inequality maps onto economic inequality, with routine workers and lower-income earners bearing the heaviest burden. As one in three British workers reports chronic sleep deprivation, the question shifts from whether sleep matters to whether institutions wi

Poor sleep costs over-50s nearly nine months of working life, study finds

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