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Get simple solutions for a good night’s sleep

A well-rested employee is more productive, more alert, more creative, and a better team player. By helping employees find simple solutions for a better night’s sleep, you’ll be helping improve morale, reduce stress, and lower health care costs across your organization.

DID YOU KNOW

One in three people have had trouble falling asleep or staying asleep in the last week.

— Schoemann, National Sleep Foundation, 2015.

The cost of insomnia is 11.3 missed workday per employee per year or $2,280 in lost productivity per employee per year. Source: Kessler et al., Sleep, September 1, 2011.

Help your employees get on the path to better sleep habits

With the Rest & Revive Toolkit, you get resources to help you assess your company’s needs, plan a strategy, engage your employees, and measure your program’s success. The full interactive toolkit is available for download below.

Step 1: Assess

Steps

Get leadership endorsement.
Gather baseline company data.

What to do

Present a business case to your leadership team on the benefits of healthy activities.
Get your company recognized for current healthy activities.
Have your CEO or other leaders demonstrate their commitment to workforce health.
Survey your employees on their sleep habits and interest in healthy lifestyle activities.
Assess your work environment to see what you’re already doing to support healthy behaviors. Look at:
- food in vending machines
- how walkable your workspace is
- whether you’re hosting healthy meetings

Tools and resources

Build a case for workforce health shows how to engage leadership with facts and figures.
Apply for the American Heart Association’s Fit-Friendly Worksites external link
Create your own free surveys with SurveyMonkey external link or Google external link.
For more ideas, see our employee interest survey.
Worksite walkability audit external link tool helps you assess walkability at your workplace.
Healthy Meetings Guide

Step 2: Plan

Steps

Promote your program.

What to do

Form a wellness committee to manage your program.
Have a company executive or your wellness coordinator send out the first promotional email introducing Rest and Revive. Include:
- program start date
- details on the kickoff if you’re having one
Print and post promotional materials in kitchen and break rooms.

Tools and resources

Wellness Committee Toolkit
Rest and Revive promotional materials:
- email
- flier
Employee guide

TIP Host a kickoff event and invite one of your top executives to speak.

Include a short demonstration of a guided imagery external link recording.

Step 3: Engage

Steps

Send emails to your employees.

What to do

Send “Self-assessment and goal-setting” email:

Help your employees track their sleep habits and look for factors affecting their sleep.

Send “Building a healthy foundation” email:
- Learn about healthy sleep habits.
- Try going to sleep at the same time each night and waking up at the same time each morning.
- Stay out of bed when not sleeping.
Send “Understanding your sleep habits” email:
- Have employees take the sleep survey.
- Then have them read what their responses indicate.
Send “Identifying sleep thieves” email:
- Avoid or limit the use of alcohol before bed.
- Avoid or limit the use of caffeine and tobacco.
Send “Managing stress” email:
- Use deep breathing to relax.
- Practice mindfulness as another daytime relaxation technique.
Send “What if I still can’t sleep?” email:
- Share tips on making healthy behavior changes with small goals and physical activity.
- If one of your employees thinks they have a more serious condition, tell them to contact their doctor.
Send “Assessing your plan and looking forward”