AUSTRALIA - Workplace naps increase office productivity?
More companies need to introduce workplace napping and caffeine therapy to help sleepy workers overcome their chronic tiredness, a sleep expert warns.
A medical meeting in Melbourne will be told on Saturday that an increasing number of employees are working on less sleep.
Despite this, Australia has been slow to embrace strategies that directly deal with fatigue caused by shiftwork and long hours on the job, said Associate Professor Naomi Rogers, a senior research fellow at the Woolcock Institute of Medical Research at the University of Sydney.
“We need to come up with solid ways of dealing with all these sleepy people, on a company, industry and even governmental level,” Prof Rogers will tell the GPCE Primary Care doctors’ conference.
“We can’t stop shiftwork and/or these long hours - that’s the way society seems to be going - but we can limit the toll it takes on individuals,” she will tell the conference.
“And businesses have to take this on board. They just can’t say anymore, ‘it’s your problem, get your eight hours, it’s nothing to do with us’.”
Prof Rogers said in-house napping programs were one of the most effective sleepiness management methods, with many US companies and a handful of Australian firms now introducing “sleep pods”.
One Response to “AUSTRALIA - Workplace naps increase office productivity?”
By Chad Sowash on Nov 27, 2007 | Reply
No wonder Joel is so productive…