How long should your naps be? - Sara C. Mednick
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Your eyes get heavy and gradually close... But wait! It's only lunch time and you still have so much to do. Would taking a nap help? Or would it derail your day? Well, that depends on a few things— especially what stages of sleep the nap includes. Sara C. Mednick details the cognitive benefits of napping, and explores the optimal length and time of day for a quick snooze.
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No i don't thinks so because if we authorized this everybody will be sleeping and not doing there work. Also is we authorize the people they will do it all the time so no time for work.
no because we would be loose all the time but at the daycare it's ok like a half hour nap for the little ones but not at the high school and not at work but at work we could let the people go home during their lunch and have a little nap before going back to work and at the high school we could put a relaxation room.
I think yes I may be a kid but I love to sleep so they do need to sleep
No, because we have a place in our house called a room. When we go to wear our resume, we just have to say that we want to work in hours and you will be less tired and more in a good mood to go to work.
no because you just have to sleep when your not working but maybe a relaxing room with chairs and couchs
Yes, giving some time after lunch to have a nap will be a good idea, both in school and at work. In school, it can be a specific time for everybody to rest for like an hour. At work, every employee should manage their own napping time and let everybody know about it, so that others won't bother you at that time and know that you'll work later.
I think that not every job can have a floating daytime sleep schedule for workers, for example, at power plants. But just at such enterprises where the cost of a mistake is expensive, they are quite important but on schedule.
Quite a few jobs involve concentration and focus from the worker. It seems to me that a more rational way out would be to reduce the working hours from the standard 8 hours to 5-6 hours. This would allow people to take naps at home, if they are comfortable with that.
its depend on our culture I think. Coz ukranian conscience don`t allow you sleep on work in you office or factory. And of course if you try to napping and if it see by your boss you will be fire after 10 minutes coz you employer that sleep at work this is outrageous. perhaps it possible is some IT-company but it just 0.2% of all
All employees will say that I'm working right now and he is sleeping. And for big companies they should have one floor for this. I don't think it makes sense nowadays.
I think that employers should welcome napping and provide nap spaces for employees because nap brings benefits to people. However, people should not be free to nap whenever and wherever they choose.
I think not, giving a space for a nap can waste a lot of time since each employee would have his own and maybe not all want to take a nap at a certain time. Something that would be more productive would be a room to distract yourself with games and other kinds of things.
No i don't agree, if people sleep they won't do their work anymore and they wont get paid for what. they have and they might lose their stuff.
Yes. I agree totally, During almost 5 years I worked at a company far from my house, I also studied and I used to go bed late and wake up early in the morning. So I really nedded to rest at lunchtime and I didn't have a suitable place for it. I slept on the floor, alond with the goods. I really wanted to have a better place to rest.
Appetitive Nap: Appetitive naps are taken for the enjoyment of napping. Napping can be relaxing and can improve your mood and energy level upon waking.
Fulfillment Nap: Children have a greater need for sleep than adults. Fulfillment naps are often scheduled into the days of infants and toddlers and can occur spontaneously in children of all ages.