Sleep & Clock Botching

Take a vacation to sleep more? Dangerous Dave talks about the trend of people taking PTO to catch up on sleep. Plus, "Clock Botching". What is it and who is doing it.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is deeper in the den with dangerous day. There
are two types of trips, the active vacations where you
spend as little time as possible in the hotel, and
the relaxing ones where you try to sleep in as
many mornings as you can. According to a new report,
forty seven percent of Americans would pay more for a
vacation that helps them sleep, thirty eight percent would be

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interested in vacations that are designed to improve their sleep,
and thirty seven percent of people said they've used to
paid time off in the past year just to catch
up on sleep. Millennials most likely to say that now.
If you're looking for sleepy getaway, Portland, Oregon says they're
the most well rested city and offers a strong wellness support,
cleaner air, and better access to family friendly environments. Madison, Wisconsin.

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Saint Paul, Minnesota also scored very very well on this
and having the right balance of health, environment and lifestyle
helps support sleep quality. Now Philadelphia ranked the sleepiest city,
and not in a good way. Laredo, Texas, New Jersey,
also scored very poorly. Report focused on lifestyles. Also, visitor
amenities looked at average sleep per night, average wellness practitioners,

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environmental factors, and access to green space and work life balance.
Of course, not everybody can afford to go on sleep retreats.
People who earn six figures more likely to use PTO
days to catch up on sleep than those who make
less than one hundred thousand. But sleep travel could be
an emerging trend. People have been googling getaways like wellness travel,

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sleep resorts, and quiet vacations, including sleep related experiences like
sound therapy, sleep coaches, sleep tracking, aromatherapy, sleeping outdoors, and
digital detoxes. I guess the digital detox. Putting down the
digital equipment is probably going to be the biggest key
to getting better sleep. And if you do that to

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go on vacation, huh, I look at social media. It's
kind of my vacation. I get to escape in other
people's lives deeper in the two I heard the term
clock botching. Yet a writer from the UK coined it
last month said it means one of two things, or
maybe both. Forbes described it as looking busy but you're

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not actually producing meaningful results. Stretching small tasks into an
entire afternoon sounds intentional. Will you try to run out
the clock at the end of the day, but not
get much done so you don't get assigned more work.
There's already terms for that, though, like task masking or foductivity.

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The original definition is different, though. The writer who coined
it clock botching, said it's when workers are ending up
doing more hours than they're paid for, not out of ambition,
but just because they can't get their workload done in time.
She also said clockbotchers also are usually the first in
the office and the last to leave. That makes it
sound not intentional, so there's just too much on their

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plate and they're not very organized. A writer for ink
dot com confuse things when they said it's an aggressive
form of clock watching when you're counting the minutes before
you leave work. Maybe it's all of the above, but
whatever it means, they agreed that it's a serious problem
in twenty twenty five, causing burnout and make people feel

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less engaged over all. So clock batching is what it is?
You know, I do, I guess spend more time doing
work that should have taken me less time. Maybe a
little focus would help tune it again for another episode
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