Napping At Work [modified]
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I agree, power naps are probably very good for one's health. A shame they are not more accepted (at least in the US they aren't).
There has been plenty of research into it, pull some together and present it to the powers that be. I could never nap, I don't really know how to fall asleep at all, I only suggested it at work cos I would have got 50 quid if they implemented it.
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One assumes a nap room is needed when people pull all nighters, not for an 8 hour work day ?
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Christian Graus wrote:
One assumes a nap room is needed when people pull all nighters, not for an 8 hour work day ?
My average work day is 14-16 hours. Come home, shower, eat, party, sleep only if necessary, then back to work. Sleeping during the week is just a habit. You can break it if you try. :laugh:
Everybody SHUT UP until I finish my coffee...
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When I was at school I generally only slept for 1 or 2 hours a night, and then would crash for 12 hours straight at the weekend. Even now I tend to sleep for at most 5 hours a night, often less, had just two Sunday night. My missus on the other hand could happily spend half her life asleep.
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Wow, I'm certain I would die in under a month on a schedule like that. If I am going to get less than 4 hours of sleep on a given night, I usually just stay awake until the next day and then crash for 10-15 hours the following night (my record is somewhere around 17 hours of sleep).
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Christian Graus wrote:
One assumes a nap room is needed when people pull all nighters, not for an 8 hour work day ?
My average work day is 14-16 hours. Come home, shower, eat, party, sleep only if necessary, then back to work. Sleeping during the week is just a habit. You can break it if you try. :laugh:
Everybody SHUT UP until I finish my coffee...
I have a friend who claims that meditation is something like 5x more effective than sleep and says he should be able to get by on 2 hours of meditation a day. I'm not entirely sure I believe him.
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One assumes a nap room is needed when people pull all nighters, not for an 8 hour work day ?
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Actually, studies show that a 10-15 minute nap is a real performance boost for an 8 hour work day. Of course, it varies between individuals. Some need it, some don't. To pull a 12 hour work day, a short nap decides if my last 2 hours are going to be productive or not.
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I have a friend who claims that meditation is something like 5x more effective than sleep and says he should be able to get by on 2 hours of meditation a day. I'm not entirely sure I believe him.
AspDotNetDev wrote:
...and says he should be able to get by on 2 hours of meditation a day...
Seems like a stretch to me. I was of course lying thru my teeth in my previous post. I sleep at least 4-6 hours a night. Since I've never meditated, I have no clue how it might serve as a replacement for sleep. But I'd bet your buddy is dozing off during his meditation sessions. ;)
Everybody SHUT UP until I finish my coffee...
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No I haven't. That is just the way I have always been (at least as far as I can remember). I usually need about 9.5 hours to feel fully rested. If a few hours is taken off that, I drag through the day.
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If you're in a salaried position where you can work autonomously most of the time, then there should be nothing wrong in taking naps (or long lunch breaks, coming in and leaving when you want to) as long as the work allocated to you gets done in the required timescale. It's a trust thing, though. Especially in larger companies, they worry as some people would certainly take advantage by napping all day, partying all night, then fighting against dismissal by claiming it was encouraged by the company having a nap room. Now, if they had a bonking room ...
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Now, if they had a bonking room ...
There's no need for one, my Missus and I have done it at 3 of my last 5 work places. Need to cross this current place off the list so I am at 80%.
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Guilty! I mean, er, infected. Uh, symptomatic?
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Actually, studies show that a 10-15 minute nap is a real performance boost for an 8 hour work day. Of course, it varies between individuals. Some need it, some don't. To pull a 12 hour work day, a short nap decides if my last 2 hours are going to be productive or not.
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Somewhere I read that the human body was actually designed to sleep twice a day albeit one of those periods is an hour or so after noon. The problem is that society has driven us with a work ethic. At an internal development workshop I went to I learned that sleeping on the job is considered insubordination. Looks like I'll have to be more careful when I work through lunch. I'm a 1:00 AM to 7:00 AM sleeper but if I can grab a nap at lunch in my car I do it even though I'd rather be reading a technical book (or a comic.)
I'm not a programmer but I play one at the office
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No nap-room here. Although, cubilce is fairly large so I can doze off if I want to, but I generally don't.
Hmm, Bedroom is approx 3ft from the office...
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No I haven't. That is just the way I have always been (at least as far as I can remember). I usually need about 9.5 hours to feel fully rested. If a few hours is taken off that, I drag through the day.
Good luck if you ever have kids! I am in an awesome mood today because I actually got eight hours sleep last night. That's my longest ever sleep since my daughter was born last March!
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Good luck if you ever have kids! I am in an awesome mood today because I actually got eight hours sleep last night. That's my longest ever sleep since my daughter was born last March!
TomChantler wrote:
Good luck if you ever have kids!
I intend to avoid that. I wouldn't survive the first week. ;P
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Straw poll: how many of you have a nap room or take naps at work? 5-vote this post if there be sleeping at your work, 1-vote this post if there's no :baaaa!: for your cow-orkers. When I worked for a startup company, we had a nap room, and it was glorious. Now that I work for a bigger company, it seems like something like that wouldn't fly (instead, I just doze off at my desk after lunch). Though, I have a fairly large cubicle, so I'm thinking of bringing in a cot, pillow, and blanket. EDIT: After 10 1-votes, might be good for somebody to 5-vote this post before it gets automatically removed. Thanks, looks like I have an upvote.
modified on Tuesday, February 8, 2011 4:51 PM
I voted 3. One of our offices has nothing of the sort - the other has a sick bay that employees can use to have a nap in the event of a real long shift. current project has seen us work from 9 am till 4 am several times a week, with the occasional all-nighter thrown in for good measure. On sleeping patterns, apparently there is a technique where you can train yourself to fall into REM very quickly. Supposedly you only need 2h of REM a day, and once trained, you can pretty much fall into it instantly. then, you just have a 20 min nap every 4h and you get the full amount of rest you need each day! i'd love to try it, but current work/lifestyle doesn't permit it. the idea of only sleeping 2h a day does appeal though! then i'd only be at work 75% of my awake hours, not 95%!
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I put an idea into the suggestion scheme at work to have one, but it was denied. Power naps are very good for you, and having a power nap and a coffee can boost mental performance by quite a lot. Power napping can also undo the damage of a disrupted nights sleep. I've worked with quite a few old fellas who doze off at their desks after lunch. And a girl I know who is a journalist, there is a bloke in her office who every lunchtime gets out a sleeping bag and goes to sleep under his desk for half an hour, feet sticking out and everything.
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ChrisElston wrote:
there is a bloke in her office who every lunchtime gets out a sleeping bag and goes to sleep under his desk for half an hour, feet sticking out and everything.
He goes into his sleeping bag head first?
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I voted 3. One of our offices has nothing of the sort - the other has a sick bay that employees can use to have a nap in the event of a real long shift. current project has seen us work from 9 am till 4 am several times a week, with the occasional all-nighter thrown in for good measure. On sleeping patterns, apparently there is a technique where you can train yourself to fall into REM very quickly. Supposedly you only need 2h of REM a day, and once trained, you can pretty much fall into it instantly. then, you just have a 20 min nap every 4h and you get the full amount of rest you need each day! i'd love to try it, but current work/lifestyle doesn't permit it. the idea of only sleeping 2h a day does appeal though! then i'd only be at work 75% of my awake hours, not 95%!
Napping can also be a time for Hijinks :laugh: http://my.opera.com/TenSigmaPlatinumBeltNinja/blog/2011/01/26/great-ways-to-wake-up-the-sleeper-in-your-office?cid=54005001#comment54005001[^]
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Straw poll: how many of you have a nap room or take naps at work? 5-vote this post if there be sleeping at your work, 1-vote this post if there's no :baaaa!: for your cow-orkers. When I worked for a startup company, we had a nap room, and it was glorious. Now that I work for a bigger company, it seems like something like that wouldn't fly (instead, I just doze off at my desk after lunch). Though, I have a fairly large cubicle, so I'm thinking of bringing in a cot, pillow, and blanket. EDIT: After 10 1-votes, might be good for somebody to 5-vote this post before it gets automatically removed. Thanks, looks like I have an upvote.
modified on Tuesday, February 8, 2011 4:51 PM
In the past when I've been in cubicle city not having anywhere to crash out for half an hour at lunchtime when I really needed it was a real pain. I can't speak for anyone else, but when I'm tired enough to want to do that (which happens more than I'd care to admit if I have to commute) not being able to really kills my productivity. I'm honestly surprised more employers don't realise how much productivity they must be wasting by not providing staff with such facilities These days it's not so much of an issue for me as I have a room with a double bed 30 ft from my office (OK, so it's a home office... :-\ ).
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Napping can also be a time for Hijinks :laugh: http://my.opera.com/TenSigmaPlatinumBeltNinja/blog/2011/01/26/great-ways-to-wake-up-the-sleeper-in-your-office?cid=54005001#comment54005001[^]
At least they don't have my Bosses favourite if you start snoring you get some object (typically a molex psu header chucked at you) mind you with flex time that is not very lightly!
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Straw poll: how many of you have a nap room or take naps at work? 5-vote this post if there be sleeping at your work, 1-vote this post if there's no :baaaa!: for your cow-orkers. When I worked for a startup company, we had a nap room, and it was glorious. Now that I work for a bigger company, it seems like something like that wouldn't fly (instead, I just doze off at my desk after lunch). Though, I have a fairly large cubicle, so I'm thinking of bringing in a cot, pillow, and blanket. EDIT: After 10 1-votes, might be good for somebody to 5-vote this post before it gets automatically removed. Thanks, looks like I have an upvote.
modified on Tuesday, February 8, 2011 4:51 PM
Hi! I used to work a place where I felt like sleeping right after lunch, in that firm there was "free" lunch. The lunch was quite nice and "heavy". That was infact my first place of work right after studies. Now I have worked many places and never felt this urge to sleep right after lunch. I have come to the conclusion that the reason why I felt like this after lunch was because of the food that was served at that firm.