You sleep under 5 hours a day. You take hundreds of short power naps, each lasting around a minute.
This allows you to work around the clock. The entire hive is thus, always awake, but also always resting, everyone (well, the workers) working in unregulated, but perfectly balanced, shifts.
What about the Queen? How long does she sleep?
Nearly double; over 9 hours.
Hmmph. Figures.