Working hours before 9am can be a ‘torture’, sleep expert says

According to one the UK’s leading sleep experts, making people under 55 of age, work before 9am is a kind of ‘torture’. Dr Paul Kelly, an Oxford University academic, said that a nine-to-five work schedule leaves young professionals exhausted and stressed due to sleep deprivation.

He also added that this could negatively affect work performance until the age of 55, when humans start needing less people. “We cannot change our 24-hour rhythms. You cannot learn to get up at a certain time. Your body will be attuned to sunlight and you're not conscious of it because it reports to hypothalamus, not sight,” he said, according to the Daily Mail. “This applies in the bigger picture to prisons and hospitals. They wake up people and give people food they don't want. You're more biddable because you're totally out of it. Sleep deprivation is a torture.”

Dr Paul Kelly also advocated for more relaxed school timings for teenagers. He even claimed that allowing pupils to stay in bed for longer would improve exam results by “around ten percent”.