Sleep@Work

The time on the bottom right corner of the computer screen reads 1pm indicating that it is lunch time and we need to have our daily dose of food and gossip in the workplace cafeteria. After spending an hour at the cafe, discussing the performance of the Indian Cricket team, talking of the new girl in the office next door and of course the usual management bashing ( in between all this you are also stuffing something in the mouth apparently called food), it is time to head back to the workstation for the actual work. Check your mailbox for an elusive mail from your friends and then you try to immerse yourself into your work.

Couple of minutes into work, the eyes seem heavy and you don't seem to be able to concentrate on work . You feel drowsy and dull ..... Nothing to panic.. Just that the afternoon siesta is calling you :) . And you start wondering, I wish my work place had a policy whereby I could sleep for 1 hour post lunch and then get back to work. Even better the office should make it mandatory for all employees and arrange for chairs which could be designed to converted into beds . Or arrange for a sleeping room much like a sports room, meeting room, conference room.

Well if you are the typical Office worker who can easily connect to what is happening above, you now have a solution in Nap pods . A company now provides a new service where employees of a company can take a siesta in a specially designed chair called NAPpods. The new addition to the pod family will improve productivity ,claims that the company manufacturing the sleep pods . ( Any surprises that the idea originated from an Indian :) ) . So first we had Free Lunch/Coffee, then we had recreation room, then Gym and Fitness trainers and now nap pods ......what can be the next thing on the improving employee productivity/satisfaction? Well Beer on the house everyday instead of the usual Water cans/Coffee maker ? :) .... The men will surely queue up for this one.........