Sweet LINK BERLIN (Reuters) - A German town has found that sleeping on the job, albeit in limited doses, can boost workers' efficiency. For two years, civil servants in the small town of Vechta southwest of Hamburg, have been allowed 20 minutes after lunch to go home and take a nap, doze in their office chairs or otherwise relax, town spokesman Frank Kaethler said. "In the beginning employees were skeptical about the project," he said on Monday. "But then they were happier and they started working better." Kaethler said Vechta started the project because it had too much work for too few employees and no budget to hire new civil servants. A local health insurance company gave them courses on napping. Research by the Institute for Sleep Research and Medicine in Regensburg found that 22 percent of the overall German population naps. But institute head Juergen Zulley said only Vechta appeared to have implemented a sleeping-on-the-job project. "Work and sleep are normally seen as opposites and many firms don't want it to be said that their employees sleep in their company," Zulley said.
I completely agree! Seriously, every workplace should have a nap room, dark and quiet with couches and blankets, and nap times should be allowed. I'm not just saying this because I'm lazy. It helps soooo much to just be able to relax and recharge for a few minutes. They had the right idea in nursery school when they made everyone take a nap... I just wonder why we were so upset about it.
Personally, I can't stand it when people sleep on the job. I mean, if you're really that tired during the day, then try getting a couple extra hours of sleep each ni54zsksklawjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj
You've obviously never seen the inside of your average refinery control room...aka "the cave". And with that, I plead the fifth.
i just turn my chair so i am angled to the corner, prop up a research paper in front of me, rest my right hand on my right temple and presto...no one can see my eyes closed and if any one walks up to approach me and says something i always snap out of my nap, turn slowly and reply...they have no idea. or i have no idea that they know...either or i still get a nap in...
