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The coronavirus pandemic has changed our sleep

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Re: The coronavirus pandemic has changed our sleep

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Post by annoyingnoob »

AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #7
annoyingnoob wrote: post #5

It has definitely changed the sleep habits of my family. However, I've been working and in the office as usual the entire time and my sleep habits have not changed at all. My kids have no reason to get up early and really not much to do in summer. My wife has been mostly off of work, so she maps to what the kids are doing. The biggest struggle for me is having everyone stay up late - I previously had some quiet/alone…

> However, I've been working and in the office as usual the entire time and my sleep habits have not changed at all. Same boat here, can confirm no changes in sleeping patterns. At this point I'm frankly jealous of people who got laid off during this whole thing because all it has meant for me is wearing a mask everywhere and my gym being closed long enough for me to get quite out of shape.

Its a mixed bag. Its hard to watch the family be basically on vacation for months while I get up and go to work everyday. On the other hand, they have done everything there is to do around the house a bunch of times and are mostly bored. When the kids were still in school I'd come home to a frustrated and pissed off family everyday and I have to sit down and do school work with the kids so that they would get it done. Home school was a real struggle in my house.

Re: The coronavirus pandemic has changed our sleep

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Post by baxtr »

peckrob wrote: post #3

Anecdotally, I can tell you that I am definitely getting up later. Between not having to be get my daughter to school by 7:20 and then a 45 minute drive to the office. I can roll out of bed about 7:45 and still be at my desk by 8ish. Honestly, work from home has been such a quantum leap in my quality of life. The fact that I am not spending 1.5 hours in the car every day has given me a surprising amount of time and e…

Today, for the first time, I went back to the office. It was horrible. I had to get up earlier. I had to shower before my first meeting. Get entirely dressed. Walk to the subway. Walk, walk, walk. Just to sit at a desk in an office with my laptop carried from home. What a waste of time and energy!

PS: yes, it was nice to see some colleagues but I don’t wanna do it more than once a week. Max!

Re: The coronavirus pandemic has changed our sleep

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Post by hx2a »

Since the pandemic I started getting up around 6 am without an alarm clock. I never did that before. A big part of that is I go to bed earlier, as there is nothing worth staying up late for.

I've found I can focus so much more if I get up early and have been super productive these past few months. I am going to keep doing this when the pandemic is over.

Re: The coronavirus pandemic has changed our sleep

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Post by Spartan-S63 »

baxtr wrote: post #12
peckrob wrote: post #3

Anecdotally, I can tell you that I am definitely getting up later. Between not having to be get my daughter to school by 7:20 and then a 45 minute drive to the office. I can roll out of bed about 7:45 and still be at my desk by 8ish. Honestly, work from home has been such a quantum leap in my quality of life. The fact that I am not spending 1.5 hours in the car every day has given me a surprising amount of time and e…

Today, for the first time, I went back to the office. It was horrible. I had to get up earlier. I had to shower before my first meeting. Get entirely dressed. Walk to the subway. Walk, walk, walk. Just to sit at a desk in an office with my laptop carried from home. What a waste of time and energy! PS: yes, it was nice to see some colleagues but I don’t wanna do it more than once a week. Max!

Totally with you there. I switched jobs from a 100% in-office software engineering gig to a remote-first software company. The upshot was that there was an office in my city that I could go into and work from a couple days a week. The WFH-default, office-optional model is what I prefer now.

Re: The coronavirus pandemic has changed our sleep

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Post by drapery »

I am not surprise about the findings that people are sleeping later and longer. The lack of stimuli from going to work, engaging face to face with colleagues, and coming home feels a like remote working induced fog.

This feeling reminds me of the Mars500 study where astronauts simulates the trip to Mars and stays in a capsule for 520 days. The study finds that as repetitive routine sets in, the crew's mood worsened, as a result, the crew slept later and longer.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3973648/

Re: The coronavirus pandemic has changed our sleep

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Post by herf »

It's important when doing these kinds of analyses to consider the effects of DST.

The first graph in the article depicts April 2, 2019 sleep times vs April 7, 2020. But April 2 was just a day after the time change (Dec 31 2019), while the 2020 week was eight days after (Dec 29 2020).

How people adjust to the time change, given the ability to sleep in, is a very interesting topic. But it is different than a description of overall sleep, and it should be a separate analysis.

Re: The coronavirus pandemic has changed our sleep

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Post by pkirk »

I don't know why, at least consciously, but I've started to sleep less with the lockdown (italian here): from ~8hrs to ~6hrs, more or less, waking up fresh&ready. I've also been more energic: I started running and started being more consistent with the weight training, sometimes both in the same day. Also lost 6Kg in the last 4 months!

But work has been the same: no increase or loss in productivity. Lockdown forced WFH, but I used to WFH for years. The only difference is that in the last 10 months I've been going to the office daily because of a new job, enjoyed the atmosphere and the colleagues. And because it was only an 8 minutes commute.

Re: The coronavirus pandemic has changed our sleep

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Post by tayo42 »

mprovost wrote: post #2

One nice benefit of working from home due to lockdown is that I haven't set an alarm in months. I just naturally get up fairly early with the sun now, so it's pretty unlikely that I'll miss my first 10:00 call.

The home being totally redone next door is my new alarm clock. its terrible to live next to, all day power tools and hammers going.

Re: The coronavirus pandemic has changed our sleep

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Post by ghaff »

baxtr wrote: post #12
peckrob wrote: post #3

Anecdotally, I can tell you that I am definitely getting up later. Between not having to be get my daughter to school by 7:20 and then a 45 minute drive to the office. I can roll out of bed about 7:45 and still be at my desk by 8ish. Honestly, work from home has been such a quantum leap in my quality of life. The fact that I am not spending 1.5 hours in the car every day has given me a surprising amount of time and e…

Today, for the first time, I went back to the office. It was horrible. I had to get up earlier. I had to shower before my first meeting. Get entirely dressed. Walk to the subway. Walk, walk, walk. Just to sit at a desk in an office with my laptop carried from home. What a waste of time and energy! PS: yes, it was nice to see some colleagues but I don’t wanna do it more than once a week. Max!

In a lot of places, offices are also going to be a lot different for a long time. For example, masks, limited use of conference rooms, no food service/snacks/drinks, separation, etc.
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