South Korea and Japan are notorious for employers demanding
insane work hours from all employees. While South Korea has officially ("officially" mind you, with intentional scare quotes) limited the work week to 52 hours Japan
is trying something different -- nap time:
"Last year, Nextbeat, an IT service provider, went as far as setting up two 'strategic sleeping rooms' – one for men, the other for women – at its headquarters in Tokyo. The aroma-infused rooms feature devices that block out background noise, allowing workers to stretch out on sofas for an undisturbed kip. Mobile phones, tablets and laptops are banned.
'Napping can do as much to improve someone’s efficiency as a balanced diet and exercise,' Emiko Sumikawa, a member of the Nextbeat board, told Kyodo news agency.
Nextbeat also asks employees leave work by 9pm and to refrain from doing excessive overtime, which has been blamed on a rising incidence of karoshi, or death from overwork."
Naps are second only to daytime drinking and good tacos in terms of awesomeness, so let's keep this up.
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