You should be wary of going to work with a hangover - here’s why
Every day, around 200,000 British workers turn up at work worse for wear after a heavy night – but how much does it really affect you?
Sally Adams of the University of Bath says that the amount a hangover affects you is still not fully understood – but it doesn’t seem to be good for productivity.
Adams says that hangovers are linked to ‘ increased conflicts at work, reduced job completion and inefficiency.’
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She says, ‘A recent survey showed 83% of employees felt that being hungover made a difference to their work. Of these, 22% admitted making mistakes as a result of being hungover and a third admitted that they “drift off and don’t work at their usual pace”.
But it’s still difficult to quantify how much hangovers actually affect you, Adams says.
A recent review of 13 studies on the effects of hangovers on work performance found that just five showed a detrimental effect – although Adams says, in an essay for The Conversation, that this could just show that the experiments were poorly designed.
