Research shows daylight time effect on workers [Video]

Most Canadians turned their clocks back an hour on Sunday – “falling back” into standard time until daylight savings time, also known as daylight savings time, returns in March.

New research from the University of Oregon finds the annual practice of “springing forward” into daylight time affects productivity more than previously thought.

Glen Waddell is a University of Oregon labour economist and co-author of the new research in the Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization. He says rather than affecting productivity for a day or two, the adjustment to daylight savings time can affect workers for up to two weeks.

Wadell and his colleague, Andrew Dickinson, looked at the daily work activity of more than 174,000 people who used the cloud-based platform GitHub during the transition to daylight savings time from 2013 to 2019.

“When we look inside the day, hour by hour, we’re actually able to see patterns of …