Report on sleep status of urban office workers: nearly half of office workers have poor sleep quality

March 21 is the 22nd World Sleep Day, and this year’s theme is “Sleep Well, Stay Healthy.” Ye Jingying, chairman of the Sleep Medicine Professional Committee of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association, released the “Report on the Sleep Status of Urban Office Workers” at the “2022 World Sleep Day Press Conference”.

The content of the report is a sleep data survey conducted by the Sleep Medicine Professional Committee of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association. The data source is 500,000 sleep data and 1,833 valid questionnaires in 2021. The sample age covers office workers over 18 years old. Including 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government.

The average sleep time of office workers is 7.5 hours

The questionnaire survey users show that the average sleep time is 7.5 hours, and the watch bracelet users show the average sleep time 6.85 hours. Only 22% sleep more than 8 hours, about 53% sleep for 6-8 hours, and 25% sleep less than 6 hours. The data shows that the sleep time of office workers over 35 years old gradually decreases with age.

Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen are the most able to stay up late, while Shandong people sleep the earliest

The data shows that the cities that can stay up the most include Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Guangzhou, and Guangdong province is the last to sleep. The average time to go to bed is 23:55; playing mobile phones has become the “culprit” affecting sleep quality, and 60% of office workers are affected by it; the earliest province to go to bed is Shandong Province, with an average time to go to bed at 22:58; The province is Shandong Province, with an average wake-up time of 06:58; the province with the latest wake-up time is Sichuan Province, with an average wake-up time of 07:50.

Nearly half of the office workers have poor sleep quality

The data shows that 47% of the office workers report poor sleep quality, and only 30.6% of the office workers reach the standard for deep sleep time; in addition to these factors, the questionnaire It shows that 25% of the population snores every night, potentially at risk of sleep apnea; among office workers with poor sleep quality, 51.6% have memory loss and 47.8% have inattention; among those who sleep less than 6 hours, 25.5% were overweight. 45% of office workers who sleep less than 6 hours have facial skin problems; meanwhile, office workers who go to bed early and get up early have a lower probability of skin problems.

The commute time is 15~30 minutes and the sleep time is the longest

Statistics show that the length of sleep is related to the problems that disturb sleep: the longer the sleep time, the more sleep problems the office workers have. The data shows that the commute time is 15-30 minutes and the sleep time is the longest. With the increase of the commute time, the sleep time decreases slightly, but the sleep time of the office workers with the commute time of more than 2 hours increases, and they get enough sleep.

Teaching and training, sales and service industries are most troubled by sleep

Top ten industries that are troubled by sleep in 2021: education and training practitioners, sales personnel, service personnel, Internet industry, construction Workers and other manual laborers, medical staff, civil servants, financial practitioners, entrepreneurs, business managers; office workers with children, the sleep time is significantly lower than that of office workers without children.