Fit Factor: Nap time

It’s 9:30 in the dawn. whether you wake up at 7:00 every day, you’ve now been churning and burning for a solid two and a half hours. Shower: check. Shave: check. Get dressed: check. Eat breakfast: check. Drive to work: check. Log on: check. start task number one of 1,000: check. reply to 25 emails: check. Leave first assembly of the day: check. And that just about brings you to where you are now at 9:30. whether you’re already feeling like you need a nap, it’s clearly for good reason.

What are the chances that your boss will let you curl up under your desk for twenty minutes to catch some Z’s? Well, whether you happen to work for any of the growing number of companies in the U.S. that are allowing employees to take ability naps, your chances are actually fairly good.

Newsweek reports that 37 percent of Americans nap during

the day, citing a survey by the National Sleep Foundation. What’s more, about a third of society surveyed stated that their employer permitted naps, and that more than a quarter said they would sleep at work whether they were allowed to. While that may seem counterproductive to improving employee output, it actually offers both employees and employers long-term benefits.

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Original post by Chris Sparling

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