The potential for abuse seems high to me. I say that as someone what worked at a company where people kept sleeping bags near the their desk so they could stay all night to meet deadlines.
I've also worked at companies that had rooms full of cots for sleeping over night when on a deadline even though apparently the laws in that country, Japan, prohibit sleeping over night at the office. Japan is notorious for not actually enforcing their labor laws.
Yeah, basically the only way this wouldn't scare me off would be if it was explicitly advertised as a siesta-style schedule - e.g. everybody works X hours/day but with a break of an hour or two in the middle of the day to do whatever... and even only then if I was actually convinced it wouldn't be used to pressure for unpaid work.
In that case you won't need it at all, as in an "environment of adults" you would have a responsible boss who is capable of proper project management, so you won't have to work through the night just to meet deadlines.
I adopted siestas years ago. When I worked at companies I would often take a nap at lunch in my car parked in a shady spot. Now I have my own office I still take a 15 minute- half hour nap most days (but on my own time). I'm a firm believer that to be at their best, people should eat and sleep when they feel the need.
I was just thinking about this today - have nap rooms with some privacy glass that is opaque enough so the nap room users don't feel like they're in a fishbowl, yet transparent enough so it's obvious when other "relief" action is going on (and the users know it) - and tell the users they're recorded through the glass.
Make sure the room is not unlit though. Daytime naps shouldn't require darkness.
Close the hatch and you block out the light and I assume feel some sense of privacy, but there's certainly no hiding a second person in there with you.
I tried napping in one of these once: it was pretty uncomfortable, since you're still sitting fairly upright (imagine an airplane seat tilted backwards), and I find the pod to do little for me in terms of blocking the surroundings, especially noise.
What is with all the comments about 'potential for abuse'? Are so many people in so many offices really like little children trying to get paid for as little work as possible - or is this just some kind of twisted disciplinarianism leaking out? From what I see of people regularly staying late, and working through lunch with a sandwich in one hand and typing with the other, on average the opposite problem holds...
I believe at least one of the two "abuse" comments is referring to the company abusing it by using it as an excuse to demand more overtime, less time at home, etc. That, I believe, is a legitimate fear.
Why is there a monitor on the bottom? Is the monitor used for watching TV/Movies? I can understand the benefit of naps at work, but a TV? Come on. If you must watch recreational videos, do so upstairs on your normal monitor.
Also overhang of the desk suggests that your feet would occupy that space when sitting. Why is the monitor facing away and the chair on the wrong side? The staging of this nap desk, makes me suspicious.
How large would your offices have to be to realistically accommodate a team of people using these desks? They look neat to me but I can't imagine buying them because of the spacial concerns alone.
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[ 4.8 ms ] story [ 60.2 ms ] threadI've also worked at companies that had rooms full of cots for sleeping over night when on a deadline even though apparently the laws in that country, Japan, prohibit sleeping over night at the office. Japan is notorious for not actually enforcing their labor laws.
To me, "We have nap desks!" denotes a certain expectation of working unsustainable amounts of hours.
That would nearly double the size!
Sorry, don't care that much.
They took it away because certain people were having their significant others over for lunch and using them for sex. :(
Make sure the room is not unlit though. Daytime naps shouldn't require darkness.
Darkness actually makes it much easier to fall asleep, and to get deeper sleep.
Close the hatch and you block out the light and I assume feel some sense of privacy, but there's certainly no hiding a second person in there with you.
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Also overhang of the desk suggests that your feet would occupy that space when sitting. Why is the monitor facing away and the chair on the wrong side? The staging of this nap desk, makes me suspicious.
If it were a dog bed though that would be nice. I could work with a four-legged companion at my feet.