Losing just 16 minutes of sleep during working days can greatly hamper your performance at the workplace say researchers. University of South Florida (USF) researchers in a paper published in the journal Sleep Health noted that workers are more likely to have poor judgment and fall off-task the next day if they lose even minimal on sleep. Findings from this study provide empirical evidence for why workplaces need to make more efforts to promote their employees' sleep said lead author Soomi Lee assistant professor from the School of Aging Studies at the university. To reach this conclusion Lee and her