I can't say the idea of a cheap hotel room with strangers banging and crashing their way past the door until all hours and the prospect of a "hearty" English breakfast in the morning does it for me. But whatever.

The hotel chain claims that up to 23 million British workers are losing an hour's sleep every night because they dread going to work the next day.

Apparently the figures are worked out as follows: Travelodge commissioned Onepoll in December 2007 to question 3500 workers. 80% said they were kept awake for 60 minutes worrying about work. 80% of the 29 million-strong workforce is just over 23 million.

Travelodge says:

"Dealing with a difficult boss or colleague, missing a deadline, giving an important presentation and coping with heavy workloads are just some of the reasons why work worries are giving Brits slumber stress rather than sweet dreams.

The research also claims that 51% of us are kept awake at night worrying about mistakes made at work during the day. Other work-related issues causing "slumber stress" are:
• dealing with a difficult boss (28%);
• having to give an important presentation (19%); and
• missing a work deadline (18%).

Travelodge's solution is "motivational sleeping". It has commissioned neuro-linguistic programmer Greg Laws to record a series of inspirational "nodcasts" which it reckons will "tap into the unconscious mind and help millions of UK workers to run their lives more successfully, while they sleep".

Podcasts, sorry, nodcasts, available for free download cover assertiveness, confidence, communication, stress and motivation.

Oh yes, it doesn't make the "nodcast" page, but according to the Travelodge press release, after falling asleep, one in five workers wakes up in cold sweats due to nightmares where they are telling their bosses what they really think of them and where they can stick their job.

The other top three nightmares workers have are:
1. being fired (18%);
2. having an affair with the boss or colleague (14%); and
3. turning up to work naked (11%).

Elsewhere in the report, it says that:
• men are twice as likely to use sex as a way of taking their minds off work worries while women are twice as likely as men to resort to reading a good book;
• more than one-third of respondents said they have their best work ideas while trying to get to sleep; and
• nearly one-third of respondents have called into work sick because they were up half the night worrying about work issues.

I'm off for a little lie down now.