1) Should organizations be concerned about the sleepiness of their employees? What factors influencing sleep might be more or less under the control of an organization?

Yes, the organization should be concerned about the sleepiness of the their employees because the outcomes have significant implications for organizational effectiveness and costs which are, it directly decreases attention span, memory, information processing, affect, and emotion regulation capabilities. And on top of that, research on sleep deprivation has found that tired workers experience higher levels of back pain, heart disease,depression, work withdrawal, and job dissatisfaction.

One of the factors influencing sleep that might be more or less under the control of an organization was getting less sleep as a direct result of longer work days. As stated in the case study researchers suggests that organization should consider flexible working hours and greater autonomy to allow employees to maximize their productive waking hours.