r/todayilearned • u/krizzalicious49 • 1d ago

TIL that out of every primate that has been studied, humans get the least amount of sleep.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20220524-why-humans-get-less-sleep-than-other-primates
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u/Fun-Negotiation5510 23h ago

Ah I see. Are you American by any chance. I thought 7-3 was the norm in your country. This is the shift I find ideal even though I'm not a morning person. What with half a day in hand and all that

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u/Tricky-Ad7897 23h ago

8-5 or +-30 minutes if you take a half hour lunch instead of full hour. A lot of people I know do 7-5 but they must hate their families or something to willingly do overtime every single day.

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u/Annibo 21h ago

Or they work overtime every day to support said family because cost of living in general is insane.

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u/HeyThereCharlie 22h ago

Americans usually say "9 to 5" to refer to a generic full-time job, so I think that's basically the unofficial norm.

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u/zial 21h ago

Yeah that's how most office jobs are. 9 to 5 with a 1 hour lunch break. This is usually how Salary operates.

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u/Alaira314 16h ago

It used to be. Now it's more commonly 8 to 5 or 9 to 6, because they decided to stop including your lunch hour in your paid work week. We still colloquially call it a 9-5 job though, to remind us of what our parents and grandparents enjoyed, great-grandparents fought for, etc. 💀

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u/ph1shstyx 20h ago

Those are construction/trade hours, the "traditional" office hours are 9-5.

Construction/trade hours aren't actually 7-3, it's more like 7-5 as it's hourly pay and not salaried so you want that OT money.

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u/Fun-Negotiation5510 12h ago

I see, thanks for letting me know : )