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How to Burn Out Your Employees Quickly and Completely

" Only 40 percent of Americans get enough sleep on most nights and a commonly cited reason is smartphone usage for work ." Using a smartphone to cram in more work at night results in less work the next day, indicates new research co-authored by a Michigan State University business scholar. Recommended Reading Click on image In a pair of studies surveying a broad spectrum of U.S. workers, Russell Johnson and colleagues found that people who monitored their smart phones for business purposes after 9 p.m. were more tired and were less engaged the following day on the job. "Smartphones are almost perfectly designed to disrupt sleep," said Johnson, MSU assistant professor of management who acknowledges keeping his smartphone at his bedside at night. "Because they keep us mentally engaged late into the evening, they make it hard to detach from work so we can relax and fall asleep." More than half of U.S. adults own a smartphone. Many consider the de