Monday, September 3, 2007

Naps for life

I´m watching this awesome trend for quite a while. And now I thought I should comment on this a little. How cool would that be if every company had a napping area. For example equipped with some alarm clocks that are preconfigured for a 20 minute nap. Some scientists once figured out that such a short nap could increase your ability to concentrate by 35 per cent.
I´m not quite sure about the states, but in Germany that would be an huge cultural shift. The people prefer to pretend that they are fit and too busy to take a nap. I think thats a stupid opinion. Everybody has a bad night every once in a while. And thats not a weakness at all. But so far I couldn´t find any advocates over 30 in my current company.
A while ago i even saw inflatable napping units. You can basically just lock your office and calm down a little.
I can only hope that sometime these things are installed more broadly. Hopefully when i have to start working :-)

http://www.metronaps.com