Afternoon Sleep in Office Work Performance Boost

the increasing demands of work to achieve the target, then sleep in the workplace becomes taboo. It might make someone fired or get a warning letter rather than a positive benefit.

But today, the opposite happens in America. Quoted in Fortune, an investment company called Kodiak Capital Group in Manhattan actually reaches the target progress in January 2011 after someone suggested to provide a comfortable sofa for a nap at the office.

“Some staff began working from 8 am to 5 pm, then go gym, home, and further work to check the Australian market from home at night before bed,” said partner manager, Ryan Hodson. ”They’re going to need a nap around 2 pm for 15-20 minutes,” he added. He also estimates that one third of every 15 workers had done as a routine nap in the office.

A survey of 600 companies by the Society for Human Resource Management, found that Americans now work more hours than in previous years. 6% of workplaces already provide dedicated space nap this year, which increased 5% from the previous year. From the National Sleep Foundation survey of 1.508 people also found that 34% of respondents had allowed his boss to take a nap in the office, and 16% of respondents said that their workplace has provided a place to nap.

MetroNaps founder, Christopher Lindholst, which sells sleep Energy Pods seat since 2006, said his clients like Google to AOL has been thinking ahead. He explained that in addition to providing incentives to promote health and healthy eating patterns, these companies are also thinking of a nap as one of the short-term plans are very effective for improving work productivity of employees.
Studies by the National Sleep Foundation in 2008 is also explained, that the Trans-Pacific airline pilot at NASA who was ordered to take a nap for 40 minutes experienced an increase in job performance as much as 34% and 54% level of alertness. Initially they had only nap for 26 minutes.

Unfortunately, this idea also received negative responses related to economic problems.Bill Anthony, a professor of psychology at Boston University and author of The Art of Napping at Work explained that with this idea, it means that companies need to pay extra to provide a special room naps, as quoted by CNN Money.