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Attorneys Make Top Ten List of Most Sleep-Deprived Jobs

Sleepy attorneyResearches for the National Health Interview Survey, conducted by a division of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, interviewed 27,157 adults to determine which occupations produced workers who were the most sleep deprived. A list of the ten jobs with the most sleep-deprived employees is below:

Most Sleep-Deprived

6h57m

Home Health Aides

7h

Lawyer

7h1m

Police Officers

7h2m

Physicians, Paramedics

7h3m

Economists

7h3m

Social Workers

7h3m

Computer Programmers

7h5m

Financial Analysts

7h7m

Plant Operators

7h8m

Secretaries

Catherine Rampell, America’s 10 Most Sleep-Deprived Jobs, The New York Times, Feb. 22, 2012.  

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