Sleep Quality And Sleeping Strategies For Work Productivity, A Handbook For Freska´s Workers

Short sleep duration and unrestful nights of sleep are already a common pattern in world-wide population. Research shows that 70% of Finnish people actually sleep "Fairly well", however, there is still a large amount of people sleeping poorly and foreigners/immigrants are not included in these studies. The purpose of this thesis was to develop a handbook for the workers of a Finnish compa-ny called Freska about sleep quality and sleep strategies for better work productivity. This hand-book has general information about the importance of sleep, its direct and indirect effects on heath and work productivity and recommended instructions for better sleeping patterns. The handbook was developed by taking in consideration the data gathered from a sleep survey given to the work-ers, making its content relatable, practical and easy to read. The research tasks were the following: 1) Why sleep is important for workers?, 2) How to have better sleeping quality?, 3) What kind of sleeping strategies could be used for better sleep quality and work performance? And 4) How to plan, test and estimate a good handbook product?. The thesis was developed from Spring 2019 to Spring 2020. The handbook received positive feed-back from the commissioning party’s supervisor and the theoretical background on sleep, as well as the survey for the workers, supports the handbook´s purpose. In early February 2020 the final version of the handbook was handed in as an electronic copy (PDF-file) for the commissioning par-ty. This thesis gave the author the possibility of developing professional learning on sleep, sleep physiology, work productivity and product Design. Moreover, applied knowledge in research and development, health and wellbeing promotion, anatomy and physiology, product development and academic writing