Richard wrote:
> > The situation I've been considering as my baseline example is a software
> > company. The definition of "more productive" would then be the
> > production of software at higher rates, with fewer bugs, and at lower
> > cost. In the more general case there would obviously be different
> > definitions of "more productive", but they all come down to doing the
> > core of one's job more effectively. I suppose in academia, that would
> > mean improving some mixture of teaching undergraduates, supervising
> > grad students, producing widely cited papers and so on.
>
Julia replied:
>I asked my husband about the software company productivity. His
>recommendations:
>
[snip]
> A full-size couch in the break room for either hanging out on break
>or for crashing out if a short nap is needed (if he has a 15-minute nap,
>that improves his productivity for the rest of the afternoon by a
>measurable amount)
>
I seem to remember some news stories over the past 2 or 3 years discussing
companies that have nap rooms, complete with cots or daybeds, and an
allowable amount of naptime per employee per day. Some had scheduled naps,
iirc usually after lunch, and some let the employees self-schedule their
naps.
Sounds like a good idea to me.
Reggie Bautista
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