▶ Your Answer :
The above article argues that companies
should hire people who sleeps less than 6 hours for the companies to flourish. The
argument may sound convincing at first. However, its credibility is highly
questionable due to numerous assumptions.
First,
the article hastily assumes that the cited study is true. Nonetheless, the
survey should not be taken at its face value because its credibility is not
warranted. The number of the study participants, 300, may be marginal, not
significant. Considering that there are uncountable number of advertising
companies, examining only 300 cases is not comprehensive enough. Furthermore, the
source of the study is not clearly mentioned. It will be highly risky to
naively believe in a study from unknown source. Therefore, the author should reexamine
the aforementioned study.
Even
if we admit that the study is true, we need to reconsider the assumption that sleeping
hours and success have causal relationship. It is entirely possible that there
may be other core reason that better explains the relationship between the
amount of sleep and success. If the successful executives sacrificed their sleep
for their self-development, self-development is the core reason for the success,
not the amount of sleep. In the case where a person sleeps less than 6 hours to
play videogames, he gets the equal amount of sleep as the successful executives,
but his work performance may not be as great.
Lastly,
the author makes an assumption that the success scheme is applicable to all the
employees of a company. Although the study was conducted limited to executives,
the article further expands the idea to all the employees, arguing that
companies should only hire the ones who have less than 6 hours of sleep. However,
we should understand that executives have more work than other normal employees
since they hold much more responsibilities to run companies. Moreover, as normal
employees have different responsibilities with the executives, they may have different
kind of works. With sleep deprivation, employees may make more mistakes in their
routine jobs, which is not helpful for the company’s success. Thus, the author should
reexamine his assumption before making his final conclusion.
In
summary, the article is not convincing on many grounds due to hasty assumptions.
In order to bolster his argument, the author should reexamine the assumptions;
the credibility of the study, the causal relationship between sleep and
success, and the applicability to the entire employees. |