{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Snooze Button","title":"The Energy Curve: Why Your Body Isn't a Phone Battery — Dr. Oliver Weigelt","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2034,"description":"A bad night's sleep can leave you waking up drained. But unlike a phone, your energy doesn't necessarily keep falling throughout the day. In workplace research, people often report a rise in energy during the morning, a peak around midday, and a decline later.\nDr. Oliver Weigelt, assistant professor of organizational psychology at the University of Groningen, joins Neil Hedley to discuss what sleep quality changes about our starting point, the effort paradox, why afternoon fatigue is more complicated than it seems, and where shift work fits—or doesn't fit—into the evidence.\nThis observational study followed 106 employees across up to 10 workdays; its group-level patterns are not universal recommendations or sleep treatments.\nResearch: Handschuch, Weigelt and colleagues, Journal of Business and Psychology (2026). Guest: Dr. Oliver Weigelt, University of Groningen.\nPrefer the nine-minute version? Listen to Oliver Weigelt on The Snooze Button EXPRESS.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/mJpzpxNbhrKKtJhkuzZf0AlUwxAsOojO2nkUnmzvBTI/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8xZTEx/MWZhZWUxNTVkY2Nm/ZjRiY2RjOTlkZGZi/NGNjOC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}