Which one do you prefer? Waking up early in the morning or staying up until midnight?
If you choose later, then, you are the B-People.
An article in the Dutch newspaper has caught my attention, because I feel that I belong to this group: the B-People. B-People is the evening-person, people that have difficulty to wake up early in the morning, starting up the engine or getting in a bus (or train, if you are in the Netherlands), and getting ready to meet clients, reading documents, meeting, and many other morning activities. While A-people (the morning-person) is fit and fresh coming to the meeting room, B-people would start the fit-and-fresh moment by the time all the meeting points have been discussed. As for me, I need at least 4cups of coffee to get me ready to work, which I found very normal.
B-people like to stay awake until midnight; however they have a big problem in the following morning, especially because they go to bed at least at 2 AM. This will result in the social jetlag – not having enough and quality social time during the day because of tiredness and sleepiness. According to this article, 60% of people lack of sleep because they have to wake up in the morning to work. B-people face even more serious problem because they lack more or less 10 hours of sleep every week.
Apparently, many people, in this case the Dutch, are discussing (and some ever are making complaint about) this issue. In this article, it is explained that being a B-person is genetic; it is something natural that we carry in our gen. Therefore people are complaining because they claim their right to working in their B-people time; they are claiming their freedom to choose their working hour.
It is a serious discussion in the Netherlands because there are more than 3.5 million B-people living here (and 2 million A people). If this issue will be taken seriously, Till Rönneberg, a professor in Chronobiology, predicts ‘unbelievable economic advantages’. If people can choose when they can work according to their bio-rhythm, creativity and productivity will increase. Employees satisfaction, too, will be affected. Thus, it would result in the increase of number of customers. Companies, organizations can open until later than 5 o’clock. Traffic jam will be reduced. People will be happier, of which also makes them healthier (Rönneberg said that B-people consume more coffee, cigarettes, and alcohol compare to A-people).
I personally would be very happy if this is really taken into serious consideration. I am not at all productive in the morning, and after lunch time I would feel sleepy again (another coffee injection is needed after lunch time), and finally when evening comes, all my idea is starting to raise. Thus, I hope in the future B-people would no longer be ‘discriminated’, yet would be praised because of their gen that makes them awake until 2 AM.
Thus, let’s pray for the day when B-People are praised and honored :P
Do you know? There are a high school and some companies that are driven for and by B-People in Denmark.
If you choose later, then, you are the B-People.
An article in the Dutch newspaper has caught my attention, because I feel that I belong to this group: the B-People. B-People is the evening-person, people that have difficulty to wake up early in the morning, starting up the engine or getting in a bus (or train, if you are in the Netherlands), and getting ready to meet clients, reading documents, meeting, and many other morning activities. While A-people (the morning-person) is fit and fresh coming to the meeting room, B-people would start the fit-and-fresh moment by the time all the meeting points have been discussed. As for me, I need at least 4cups of coffee to get me ready to work, which I found very normal.
B-people like to stay awake until midnight; however they have a big problem in the following morning, especially because they go to bed at least at 2 AM. This will result in the social jetlag – not having enough and quality social time during the day because of tiredness and sleepiness. According to this article, 60% of people lack of sleep because they have to wake up in the morning to work. B-people face even more serious problem because they lack more or less 10 hours of sleep every week.Apparently, many people, in this case the Dutch, are discussing (and some ever are making complaint about) this issue. In this article, it is explained that being a B-person is genetic; it is something natural that we carry in our gen. Therefore people are complaining because they claim their right to working in their B-people time; they are claiming their freedom to choose their working hour.
It is a serious discussion in the Netherlands because there are more than 3.5 million B-people living here (and 2 million A people). If this issue will be taken seriously, Till Rönneberg, a professor in Chronobiology, predicts ‘unbelievable economic advantages’. If people can choose when they can work according to their bio-rhythm, creativity and productivity will increase. Employees satisfaction, too, will be affected. Thus, it would result in the increase of number of customers. Companies, organizations can open until later than 5 o’clock. Traffic jam will be reduced. People will be happier, of which also makes them healthier (Rönneberg said that B-people consume more coffee, cigarettes, and alcohol compare to A-people).
I personally would be very happy if this is really taken into serious consideration. I am not at all productive in the morning, and after lunch time I would feel sleepy again (another coffee injection is needed after lunch time), and finally when evening comes, all my idea is starting to raise. Thus, I hope in the future B-people would no longer be ‘discriminated’, yet would be praised because of their gen that makes them awake until 2 AM.
Thus, let’s pray for the day when B-People are praised and honored :P
Do you know? There are a high school and some companies that are driven for and by B-People in Denmark.
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