Sleep — A Third of Us are Using Personal Time Off to Catch Up

We’re a tired bunch these days. The mattress manufacturer, Amerisleep did a survey of workers and found over a third of us spend our paid time off (PTO) to recover from exhaustion.

We do that rather than take a vacation. Rosie Osmun, Amerisleep’s certified sleep science coach gave some statistics:

• 43% of millennials use PTO to catch up on sleep
• 34% of Gen X does the same
• 33% of Gen Z uses PTO to recover
• 20% of baby boomers do the same

Osmun said rest becoming recovery is a warning sine for both employees and employers.

“Many are using their hard-earned PTO to simply get back to baseline rather than enjoy life or recharge creatively,” she said. “This pattern reflects a deeper issue where we’ve normalized exhaustion as a badge of productivity. But when nearly four in 10 employees are too tired to take a real vacation, it’s no longer just a wellness concern. It’s now a workforce sustainability problem. The most resilient teams will be those whose leaders recognize that rest is part of performance, and not just a pause from it.”

Here’s more from the survey:

• Philadelphia is the nation’s sleepiest city
• 50% of Honolulu, Hawaii adults sleep fewer than 7 hours a night
• That’s the highest rate of sleep in all the cities surveyed
• 38% of us are interested in a vacation to improve our sleep
• 47% of us are willing to pay up to 25% more to attend that sleep retreat

“Burnout is so widespread that people are burning vacation days on basic recovery instead of new experiences,” said Osmun. “This shift shows that rest has become a necessity, not a luxury.”

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