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How Your Bedtime Is Affecting Your Job Performance

Tips for Coping with Work When You Have a Sleep Disorder

Can't Sleep? It Might Be More Than Insomnia

What if there were more to being a night owl than you realized? That it wasn’t necessarily a matter of being undisciplined about your sleeping habits, but a biological need?

A colleague who often e-mails me at 4 a.m. recently shared her struggles with delayed sleep phase syndrome (DSPS), a type of circadian rhythm sleep disorder. So I hope sharing more about delayed sleep will be helpful to you -- especially if you or someone close to you is typically wide awake well after midnight, but not because of insomnia. 

Peter Mansbach, president of the Circadian Sleep Disorders Network, will share more about the ins and outs of delayed sleep. His organization is an online network of volunteers that provides emotional support and research-based information to improve the lives of people with chronic circadian rhythm disorders, and promotes awareness of these disorders in the medical community and the public. In upcoming stories, you’ll also meet a freelance writer, a software engineer, a draftsperson, and an ethnographer with delayed sleep to learn how they navigate their careers despite their unusual sleep needs. 

 

  • Nancy Ancowitz

    Nancy Ancowitz is a business communication coach specializing in career advancement and presentation skills. She is the author of Self-Promotion for Introverts(R): The Quiet Guide to Getting Ahead, a Publishers Weekly "best book" selection. Read more...