Human resource professionals responsible for ensuring workplace productivity must focus on a number of different factors to accomplish their goals. One of the most important is the amount of sleep that staff members get before coming to work.

According to the International Business Times, a Harvard Medical School survey has discovered that one out of four Americans regularly shows signs of insomnia. The findings of this research estimate that this lack of sleep can cost employers $67 billion each year and results in a net loss of 7.8 days every year for each employee.

Workplace productivity requires consideration of many different elements, all of which need to be organized by using an overarching plan. It may be tempting to remind all workers to get enough sleep before coming into work each day, but the only way that workplace injury prevention and productivity can be addressed is by studying each employee's habits and implementing specific solutions for each type of worker. After all – not every single staff member is overtired and unproductive.