Gone are the days of bragging about how much work you can do on three hours of sleep a night.

Emma Atkinson, Ragan CommunicationsNo one likes getting a poor night’s sleep. Tossing and turning, lying awake for hours on end or waking up feeling sore and unrested can make for an unproductive day.Working on little or poor sleep is also making U.S. employees so unproductive thatnew researchestimates sleep-related absenteeism is costing an estimated $44.6 billion in lost productivity each year.[FREE DOWNLOAD:Leadership and Communications in 2022: 6 Lessons From Top Leaders]New polling from Gallup and mattress company Caspershows that self-described poor sleepers report 2.29 missed workdays each month due to “poor health,” as compared with 0.91 days for other employees.Sleepless nights aren’t just costing companies money — workers who sleep badly are more likely to report having changed jobs in the last year, too. 

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All in all, poor sleep is bad for companies and bad for employees. But how can managers address this problem among their own workforces? “How’d you sleep last night?” is a personal question, after all.Enter sleep leadership.Continue reading here...