專欄睡眠艙

Dreaming of a better world

A few years ago, I discovered that Arianna Huffington, the journalist who created the news and blog website the Huffington Post, had installed “sleep pods” in the office to enable her employees to snooze.

I was surprised. After all, Huffington is part of that tribe of glamorous, jet-setting, global overachievers who seem far too busy to find time to sleep. For them, surviving on minimal slumber is usually taken as a badge of honour, if not a prerequisite for success. So why, I wondered, was she bucking this image by publicly embracing daytime sleep?

Having touched on the importance of sleep in Thrive (2014), Huffington is publishing a new book next month, The Sleep Revolution, which lays out her manifesto. In it, she declares that one of the most pernicious problems in the modern world is chronic sleep deprivation. So she is campaigning for a “revolution” in social attitudes: somehow we all need to accept that it is entirely desirable for people to get enough sleep — even in the office — without suffering shame (or the sack).

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吉蓮•邰蒂

吉蓮•邰蒂(Gillian Tett)擔任英國《金融時報》的助理主編,負責全球金融市場的報導。2009年3月,她榮獲英國出版業年度記者。她1993年加入FT,曾經被派往前蘇聯和歐洲地區工作。1997年,她擔任FT東京分社社長。2003年,她回到倫敦,成爲Lex專欄的副主編。邰蒂在劍橋大學獲得社會人文學博士學位。她會講法語、俄語、日語和波斯語。

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