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Wladislaw Rivkin, Associate Professor in Organizational Behavior, Trinity College Dublin

How a night of poor sleep can affect your next day at work – and four ways to function better

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Think back to a night when you slept poorly. How productive were you the next day at work? Did you struggle to get started? Did the day drag on and on? Did you procrastinate on Twitter or TikTok rather than doing your work?

If your answer to these questions is “yes”, you’re not alone. Even though we don’t fully understand why we sleep, we know that sleep is crucial for our physical and mental functioning.

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