Working 24/7 is the cognitive equivalent of coming to work drunk

In an NPR interview about her new book, The Sleep Revolution, Arianna Huffington offered up this perfect quote on the importance of sleep and its relationship to the workplace:

We hear employees being congratulated for working 24/7, which now we know is the cognitive equivalent of coming to work drunk. But it's changing. We are now in this amazing transition period where more and more companies are beginning to realize that living like that and working like that has actually terrible consequences — not just on the health and productivity of their employees but also on their bottom line.