Whether in office, or when working from home, do you ever sleep at work? If yes, how often?
I have had quick 5-10 minute naps many times at my old in-office job. It was a very small company. Some days there were only 2 of us in one of the cabins, so it was pretty easy, she was okay with it. Sometimes, if she had to ask me something and found me taking a nap, she was like, nevermind, you can go back to sleep. Since she sat near the door, she would alert me if one of the bosses is coming around.
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Not as often as I think about doing it.
My job is engaging and active and I enjoy it. And due to the nature of the job, I get paid more the busier I am, so there’s no incentive to goldbrick.
I work from home and try not to nap. Napping can interfere with getting a good night’s sleep and I have difficulty with that enough as it is.
With that said, there are times where I will lay down for 20 minutes to reset the clock as it were. Usually about two or three times a month. I used to try and nap often, but stopped when my primary informed that it can disrupt my sleep pattern. And yes, my sleep pattern was royally screwed in those days.
Now, if I feel I need a nap I try to exercise. Either go out for a hike when it’s warmer. I picked up an elliptical off of Nextdoor and use it when it’s not nice outside. Yes, it’s tough to not just flop into my bed, which sits behind my workstation rather than hit the elliptical, but I managed to form a new habit.
wfh
like every other day at lunch I have a short nap. dealing with stupid shit is exhausting
I generally nap at lunch when I should be eating instead.
Sleep? Never.
Lay there with my eyes closed while I wait for something to do? Nearly every day.
Never
I used to nap daily for 20-40 mins on a 1-hour lunch in my car. I hated the job and had a 75 minute commute while never letting myself go to bed early enough. I got pretty good at it and can nap pretty effectively. 26 minutes is how long you want to be asleep for, according to NASA. It helps to have a routine to make both falling asleep and waking easier
Only once, but they caught me and I got fired for being “wildly irresponsible”. It was just for like 15 seconds, the bus barely went off the road.
Fuck these billionair bus company CEO’s. They’re all like “we’re a family” when they want you to work overtime, but they’re like “you’re fired for almost killing 50 children” when you take a much needed nap the next day.
I would when I ran out of work to do. Whenever I was told off for it, I told them just to give me more work to do. Haven’t fallen asleep since
Well im not getting a raise this year…so yes…a lot.
Basically never now, thankfully. My old job would send me out to the field where a lot of the day was spent waiting for things to happen. Luckily those things often involved loud noises, so I’d be woken up and didn’t miss anything.
For more context, I work for an environmental company where part of our work is overseeing the importing and exporting of soil (dirt) and stone (rocks) from jobsites. Depending on where in the state you are, it could be a 3 hour round trip from the jobsite to the quarry/landfill. I’d bring a folding chair, or just sit in my car near where the loading/unloading was.
For import, the dump trucks would roll in and then just dump their whole load. The noise came from the tailgate slamming shut after the entire truck was emptied. It would wake me up every time.
Then for export, a bulldozer would be dumping rocks, concrete, or soil into a dump truck. That was usually pretty loud itself which would wake me up.
According to the weekly dump logs (lol), I never missed a truck.
Technically, being a truck driver, I sleep at work every day. There’s a mattress right behind my seat.
Most of my trips these days aren’t long enough to warrant pulling over to catch some shut-eye, but I’ve been that desperate in the past. Never on a highway shoulder though, I’d always try to be safer than that.
The vast majority of my customers will load and unload my truck for me, so usually, once I back into a dock door, it’s nap time.
I’m typically active for 6 hours of an 8 hour shift. I’m pretty sure that sleeping, even if on a break, is terminable where I work.
I never do to be honest. I dont nap. For better or worse.
When I worked nights at my current job I could go into any of the back offices and get in a good 2-3 hours of sleep each night if I wanted. At one point I got a talking to for not being “on camera” for too long but they could never prove what I was doing so it was just a warning and not a write-up.
I work day shift now so I can’t do that anymore, but I’m also getting better sleep so I don’t really have to.
