Hi there, it's Matt here and welcome back to the podcast.

Most of you listening either have a job or have had a job.

Some of you may be managers, some of you may be bosses,

entrepreneurs, CEOs. If you want to know real world data regarding how sleep impacts business, job performance,

your sleep health or lack thereof within that context and perhaps what you can do about it as an

individual or as a company to improve that sleep status of your employment or your company, in my mind there is only one person that you contact.

That person is Dr. Chris Barnes.

Chris is the renowned Michael G. Foster,

endowed professor of management

at the Foster School of Business at the University of Washington and I would absolutely advise that you follow him on

on Twitter you can find him at Chris 24 Bonds, so that is at Chris 24, B, A, R, N, E, S. You're about to see he is the individual leading the science and the practical

implementation of sleep in businesses in the corporate world within the workplace.

Chris, welcome to the show.

Thanks, I'm happy to be here.

Now, in this first series with you I wanted to focus on the employees themselves and in

subsequent episodes we'll speak about business leaders, entrepreneurs and entire corporations.

What I wanted to start with, maybe at a high level, is a superb scientific paper that you recently published called Why Healthy Sleep

is Good for Business. And as you and I know in working with large companies, there is quite an ingrained.

It almost feels sometimes immovable and perhaps even understandable mentality that less sleep

equals more productivity as we're about to find out it's quite the opposite.

So while we'll get into some of the real specifics in terms of

individual proof and fact, this is so unfair as a question but give me the two-minute elevator pitch that you would offer a large

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