The recession is causing the world to literally lose sleep. The average manager is sleeping 19 per cent less than the recommended eight hours a night, the FT reported, citing a survey of respondents in five countries. Some 40 per cent of those questioned blame the state of the global economy for their insomnia. Americans are more likely than other nationalities to lose sleep through stress at work, with 30 per cent citing it as the reason they wake up in the night. Germany was next, with 27 per cent; then the UK, 24 per cent; and Japan, 20 per cent. The Dutch, at 12 per cent, were the least affected.

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