The Link Between a Lack of Sleep and Poor Productivity at Work
How would you define a productive employee? Picture this:
This has already been adopted by several successful businesses:
- Employee A has been working long hours in office, dealing with an important project. He knows he can’t afford to take a break in such an urgent situation, so during the day he drinks five cups of coffee to keep him awake. He leaves for home at midnight, and then is up again at 4am to take a flight for a client meeting.
- Employee B, on the other hand, comes to the office at 9am, goes back home at 5.30pm to have dinner with his family, and retires to bed at 11pm for eight solid hours of sleep. In fact, he even sneaks in a ten-minute nap during the lunch break.
- Google’s California headquarters offers nap pods, for employees to catch up on sleep.
- PwC, following its own research findings, has adopted nap pods at the workplace.
- Uber’s San Francisco headquarters has special nap rooms specially designed by an interiors firm.