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Does chronotype restrict the employment options of creative R&D professionals?

ABSTRACT How circadian rhythms affect socio-economic behaviour is little explored but is a promising area of research that could suggest considerable changes in policy making, social norms and individual decision making. This article presents a pilot study of perceived restrictions that sleep patterns set on the employment options of creative research and development professionals. The study is based on ordered probit and ordinary least squares regression modelling on a sample of 153 creative R&D employees from Estonia, with chronotype, sleep duration and various individual and work characteristics as explanatory variables. We find that evening type individuals and those who sleep more hours feel that sleep restricts their work options more than other employees do. Given that there is some genetic background to both morning-evening preference and sleep hours and they are therefore difficult to change, individuals of different chronotypes and with different sleep behaviour may not have equal options in finding employment in creative R&D work.